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not upbraid him when they met on 'Change, but he 

 bided his time. As Mr. Disraeli observes, " the 

 opportunity came at last, as everything does in this 

 world, if men are firm and calm." Finding his friend's 

 pigs in their crates at a station, bound to a local 

 show, and no one with them, the " dead" man changed 

 the directions and despatched them to York ; and 

 the owner soon guessed the reason of their non- 

 appearance. 



Mr. Wainman of Carhead, in the Keighley district, 

 had the most remarkable career as a breeder and 

 shower of pigs during the twelve years he was at it. 

 He took very little interest in the pursuit himself; 

 and the whole management devolved on his steward, 

 Mr. John Fisher, as great a genius among pigs as Mr. 

 Culshaw, the Towneley " Talleyrand of trainers" is 

 among Shorthorns, or the late George Newton, of Mr. 

 Sanday's showing-days, amongst Leicesters. No pigs 

 to speak of were kept at Carhead until 1853, when 

 Mr. Fisher bought some of the Tuley sort, and crossed 

 them with another purchase, Mr. Swan's Midas. It 

 is not, however, our intention to go into particulars of 

 crosses, or to tell how Miss Emily, the first high pur- 

 chase, was the principal mould in which the middle 

 breed were cast and quickened. The composition 

 succeeded best by the union of a large sow and a 

 small boar ; and the Carhead average has generally 

 been about 34 stone of 14IDS. at twelve months for the 

 large breed, 30 stone for the middle, and 25 stone for 

 the small. Midas was more adapted for store pur- 

 poses than the show-yard. Still, at Ripon, Mr. " Val 

 Barford" fought hard to place him first, and kept on 

 saying to his brother judges, u Look at his gammons, 

 gentlemen !" However, if they did look, they " didn't 

 see it," and he got the blue instead of the white 

 rosette. A cottier bought him at last, and sold one 

 of his flitches to a Bradford provision merchant. Part 

 of it found its way to the kitchen of a municipal dig- 



