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nitary ; but the fumes were all over the house when 

 the cook tried to toast a rasher for the parlour. The 

 dealer being sarcastically apprised of its strength 

 under fire, gave away the rest of the flitch to the 

 children on " Collop Monday ;" and thus freed him- 

 self for life from all " Pray ye a collop" levies, as even 

 those strong-stomached innocents would " have no 

 more of that old horse." The cottier kept very dark 

 as to what he did with the other flitch and the hams. 

 All he would say was, that he " had fettled somebody 

 with them," and that he " had made mony a waur 

 bargain than that." In truth, an aged boar should be 

 buried with all the honours, and turn, like " Imperial 

 Caesar," to clay, and not to bacon. 



The first large-breed sow at Carhead was bought by 

 mere chance in Lancashire. A working-man turned 

 her out of a stye for a mid-day run into a croft near 

 Colne, and Mr. Fisher (who won the Beverley Cup on 

 Falcon as a boy, and was second horseman for ten 

 seasons to Mr. Hall of the Holderness) chancing to 

 ride past, was so delighted with her symmetry and 

 action, that he drew rein, and bought her for 8/. 2s. 6d. 

 The "uncontrollable impulse" was a correct one, 

 as she became the dam of Chelmsford Duchess, the 

 first Carhead winner at the Royal, as well as the Salis- 

 bury Boar and Carhead Duchess. Chelmsford 

 Duchess was sold for 40/. to the French Government, 

 and Yorkshire Prioress went to Salisbury the next 

 July. She turned newt. 2qrs. 27IDS. at Kildwick 

 station, when she was put on the rail in Yorkshire. 

 During the journey water was thrown upon her, and 

 she would stand up and drink, whereas Lady Airedale 

 never drank on her travels in the hottest weather, and 

 seemed to sulk at the sight of water, although she 

 would eat for ever. The Salisbury clock struck ten 

 when the London cattle special cleared the great 

 chalk cutting, and arrived at the station, where a 

 goodly multitude awaited it. " Dick" and " Kit," 



