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shows, and won 12 1 first prizes and 50 seconds (many 

 of them "to their own stable"), making 464/. \os. be- 

 sides one silver cup, six silver medals, and one bronze. 

 Fresh Hope led the way with nineteen firsts and a 

 second, and King Cube backed her up with fifteen 

 and three. The last victory was at Birmingham in 

 1866, with a pen of five got by Fresh Fire, and then 

 the whole were sold, Mr. Jacob Wilson going in for 

 Dream of Pretence and Golden Link. 



Their show-season generally opened, at Accrington, 

 in April, and lasted to the Leeds Fat Show. Big 

 Kit — whose biceps muscle was a marvel to behold — 

 and Little Kit were found everywhere from Edinburgh 

 to Exeter with the precious crates. Their heaviest 

 reverse was at Newport, on which they descended in 

 charge of four clippers, and had to strike their flag 

 without a prize or a mention, before "those Irish- 

 looking blacks and whites." Sometimes the army of 

 Wainman Whites would be off in two divisions com- 

 manded by " the Kits," and then Mr. Fisher would 

 meet them with the main body from Carhead, and 

 they would close their ranks for a grand descent on 

 the Yorkshire or the Highland Show. They very 

 seldom went to the Smithfield Club, but at Birming- 

 ham, in the halcyon days of pig prices, when a fox- 

 hunter boasted that he got three days a-week hunt- 

 ing out of two sows, Mr. Wainman has made 15/. 

 each for pigs out of a prize pen, under six months 

 old. The late Lord Berwick was the first to pay it, 

 and ten guineas to 12 guineas was by no means un- 

 usual. French buyers always fought out the point of 

 "No ginney ! No ginney ! Von pound /" and when the 

 bargain was struck, Mr. Fisher was generally seen 

 sketching in chalks the imperial fleur-de-lis of La Belle 

 France on his late charge's hams. 



Nineteen young pigs, chaperoned by Silver Wing, 

 Silver Beard, Duke of York, Rival Duchess, and 

 Middle Link, went to the Hamburgh show in 1864. 



