380 Saddle and Sirloin. 



poor Will Carfrae. He also enjoyed an outing at the 

 Waterloo and Lytham Meetings ; but his affection of 

 the spine and rheumatism stealthilyincreased uponhim, 

 and for two or three years before his death he could 

 not get further than to his sister's house at Skipton in 

 his gig. He died on September 2nd, 1869, in his 

 seventieth year, and was buried at Gisbourn, and in 

 obedience to one of his last wishes, his coffin-lid bore 

 the likeness of a greyhound. 



As a coursing judge he has never been surpassed, 

 and the beautiful silver testimonial which was pre- 

 sented to him on his retirement by a subscription 

 amongst the very first coursers in England and Scot- 

 land told that his fame was unsullied to the close. A 

 more righteous judge never got into the saddle, but 

 his judgments were not always appreciated. His 

 knowledge of the science was so deep that he was apt, 

 at times, to reckon up a dog's work very differently to 

 mere ordinary observers, who are generally the most 

 captious critics. The really good judges of a course 

 knew and made allowance for his one fault — viz., that 

 if he once saw a greyhound shirk its work in any way, 

 he never forgave it, and the transgression was apt to 

 be remembered the next time the offender was in the 

 slips. This was a weakness to which he was quite 

 alive, but which he could never quite shake off ; and 

 there is no doubt that it sometimes led him into de- 

 cisions that were perhaps hardly warranted. Still, 

 this was a mere speck on a very brilliant career, and 

 as a public official we see few like him in any branch 

 of sporting. He never seemed to forget any incident 

 of a course, and it was his delight to sit and talk them 

 over, as if they had been run only yesterday. He 

 always inclined to Bennett's Rocket as the fastest dog 

 he ever judged, and he thought that Gregson's Neville 

 ranked next in pace, with just a shade the best of 

 Judge. 



He loved to tell of the King Cob stock, which 



