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then seemed, he won the Goodwood Nursery on a 

 Friday, and on the Monday he was giving a stone and 

 finishing level with Catalonia for the Nursery at 

 Ripon. Six winners out of four mares in three seasons 

 is no small allowance. 



Pedigreed shorthorn cows with rich-haired Duke of 

 Townley calves are also to be found in the spots once 

 specially dedicated to blood stock, and two drape 

 cows were laying on Christmas beef in the well walled 

 acres of " Daniel's own." Coatess Herd Book is at 

 last having its claim allowed by the side of WetJierby's 

 Calendar, and the red Duke of Townley, with a man 

 on each side of that handsome but treacherous fore- 

 hand, is ushered into the yard, and walks snorting 

 down the high road. 



The mares are always taken up when the hounds 

 come. In old Sir Tatton's time Lord Middleton 

 never drew the Sedmere covers (which are full of 

 foxes, and require an enormous amount of routing), 

 but whipped off, as the troops of mares would have 

 taken to galloping half the day, and have probably 

 cast their foals. The litters were, of course, carefully 

 looked after, and carried off to another part of the 

 country. However, when the railroad was made, the 

 whips could very seldom stop them, and they ran to 

 Sledmere oftener during the first three years after the 

 line was opened than they had done in the previous 

 twenty. Pry Whin is a beautiful cover for cubs, with 

 that grand pear-shaped bit of whin, gorse and briars 

 in its centre, from which we have seen a brace of old 

 foxes leisurely cross the riding on a summer afternoon. 

 Beyond it, at the end of this line of woodland, is the 

 Gothic tower, which has been erected to Sir Tatton's 

 memory on Garton Hill. A laboured inscription 

 would have only mocked a memory so rich in grand 

 simplicity. Few words were needed, and none are 

 there save " The memory of the just is blessed." A 

 hot haze denied us a distant view as we scaled the 



