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After these home studies, we had quite an excur- 

 sion among the ewes — a wide, short-legged lot, full of 

 Buckley and Sir Tatton s blood— and the drinking- 

 ponds, which are made much after the Sledmere 

 fashion. There were some Masham sheep lacking 

 the horns, seventeen Galloway heifers with Bride- 

 groom (23,453) as their esquire, and a very neat filly 

 foal by The Cure from a Cawston mare, and one of 

 the last he ever got. With these " musings by the 

 way," we reached the far gallop in the plantations. It 

 has been a time-honoured axiom that for every ten 

 acres of wold one should be planted for shelter. The 

 belief has obtained to the full at Givendale, where the 



by her own son Count Waterloo— another fact for those who wont hear 

 of in-and-in breeding. The latter unfortunately bred nothing but bulls. 

 Vesta's dam was bought about this time, in calf of Bullion (15,706), 

 who nicked well with Lady Waterloo 3rd in Lord of Waterloo, whose 

 hocks went from long confinement during a snowstorm, when there was 

 some idea of "going on with him" for shows. Bullion had two crosses 

 of Booth blood in him, and Patriot from Jacinthe by Leonidas (10,414) (a 

 purchase as a cow at the Panton sale) two or three more crosses. From 

 the very first, Mr. Singleton joined in with neither of the " great Herd- 

 Book factions." He once stood upon four tribes — the Waterloos ; the 

 Floras, from Watson of Wauldby's ; the Ruths, from Emmerson's of 

 Eryholm ; and the Medoras, which go back, through the Rev. Thos. 

 Cator's Hecuba and Mr. Fawkes's Fair Maid of Athens, to Booth's 

 Medora. He rears his bull-calves for sale, and shows very little, and 

 has, in fact, only come out five times at the Yorkshire, but always been 

 placed or thereabouts Alice was highly commended in the calf class, 

 which Booth's Queen of the Isles headed at York in '57, and was sold 

 after winning at Driffield to Mr. Emmerson for 70 guineas. Prince Tom 

 of the Flora tribe earned the same honour that day behind Lord of the 

 Valley and Great Mogul. Miss Waterloo 4th separated Second Queen 

 of May and Rosedale, and took the second prize ; Mirth was second to 

 a cow of Mr. Radcliffe's of Brandsby when Pride of Southwicke was dis- 

 qualified ; and Fourth Squire of Waterloo was third yearling at Be- 

 verley. Mirth was by Ferdinand, dam by Surplice, grandam Doris by 

 Belshazzar (1703). She "died well" at Liverpool in '64, after winning 

 the 10/. prize in her class, and the special cup as the best beast in the 

 fat yard. The whole of the Waterloo females have since been sold at a 

 high price to Mr. Cheney, and replaced by cows from Mr. Angus 01 

 Broomley. 



Mr. Singleton began with Leicesters in 1844, by hiring a ram irom 

 Sir Tatton, and was pretty constant in his visits to the old baronet at 



