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on which a widowed swan is sailing, in the glen below, 

 hard by a little church. A turn to the left brings us 

 to the hamlet of Givendale, which lies among snug 

 gardens and garths, on a great natural platform over- 

 looking the Vale of York and its distant Minster 

 towers. Mr. Singleton's holding comprises 640 acres, 

 all on the wold, and belonging to his mother and 

 himself. It lies from 500 to 800 feet above the sea 

 level, and on the range of the chalk hills, which extend 

 to Langton Wold, and straight across the East Riding 

 to Filey. Oats, barley, and turnips all flourish well, 

 but mangolds are rarely tried. The Lincolns do nicely 

 enough in Holderness, but they fail on the chalk of 

 the wolds, which is not strong enough feeding for 

 them. There is no mistaking Mr. Singleton's home- 

 stead. To the left is the letting yard, where Mr. 

 Boulton's voice is heard in the land as each first Wed- 

 nesday after the 20th of August comes round, and the 

 Leicester rams, and red and red-flecked shorthorns, 

 headed by old Graceful, in the home garth make 

 assurance doubly sure. We thought of poor John 

 Thompson of Anlaby, and his remark on his last visit, 

 " That's the right sort of flesh," as that wealthy troop 

 of Lady Waterloos, Miss Waterloos, Ruths, and 

 Floras, with their wondrous family likeness and 

 "warm Christmas colours," grazed right up to the 

 garden rails. Thousands have been thrown away on 

 scores of pedigreed herds, and no such really solid 

 and useful result has been attained* 



* Their owner was entered to Shorthorns, like many other good men, 

 at the Kirklevington sale in '50, where he bought Waterloo 4th by 

 Cleveland Lad (3407), in calf to Third Duke of Oxford. The produce 

 was Lady Waterloo, which she supplemented with. Miss Waterloo by 

 Surplice (10,901). Lady Waterloo bred in her turn Lady Waterloo 

 2nd, which broke its neck as a calf, and Lady Waterloo 3rd, both of 

 them by Mr. Wiley's George (12,941). Lady Waterloo 4th and Count 

 Waterloo were her calves by Mr. Sanday's Ferdinand (12,871) — a Royal 

 H. C. at Lincoln, and a 100-guinea purchase by auction — but her finest 

 calf, both in point of substance, size, and hair, was Lady Waterloo 6th, 



