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defied. One of their great legitimate victories was 

 when they " walked into Wainman" and Carhead 

 Duchess, with Lady Havelock at Chester. The news 

 was telegraphed to Leeds, and the whole of the 

 owner's family circle arrived on the Roodee next day. 

 The gude wife was especially communicative, and 

 said that there was " some sense in those judges," and 

 that " Tom would niver have sent her but for me." 

 They must have pretty well spent the 10/. prize over 

 the trip, and a^night we met them in an inn drinking 

 ginger-beer and giving away oranges in the gladness 

 of their hearts. "The missus" had a large basket of 

 them on her knee, and pressed them after her hearty 

 Yorkshire way on everyone, in honour of the event. 

 " There, maister, you're welcome if you'il ha' yen — 

 old sow's wan." The pair were pretty equal, but 

 Mr. Fisher had four more shyes at her, and won the 

 odd trick. 



The conductress of Lady Kate was quite as en- 

 thusiastic as the Leeds dame. She rode up and down 

 the country in the railway truck with " the lady" and 

 her litter (exciting thereby the deepest devotion on 

 the part of the porters), and sold her infant charges at 

 5/. apiece. That summer she and Lady Kate gathered 

 many a rosette in Yorkshire and Lancashire ; and 

 she delighted to sit by her sow, and to reckon up on 

 her fingers its thirteen crosses from the Chineze. 

 This was the poor girl's only summer in the show- 

 yards. The trip had been undertaken to divert her 

 mind from her fate, as she died soon after from cancer 

 of the breast. 



Some of the rich Manchester men are also rather 

 fond of the sport, and do not scruple to play off prac- 

 tical jokes on each other. One of them, who was not 

 very sure that his pigs would win, overtook his friend's 

 lot on the road. " You may turn back," he said to the 

 swineherd ; " your master's dead." He had there- 

 fore the show pretty well to himself. His friend did 



