Cheshire Cheese-making. 403 



England and Ireland each with one, and Scotland 

 with two champions, Ireland and Scotland fought it 

 out at last, and Lord Lurgan's dog could only beat 

 Bab about a length for speed, and get very little the 

 best of the working. Perhaps two such flyers never 

 met before, as the winner has never been beaten, and 

 the loser, we believe, only once. Bonfires were lighted 

 on Friday night on the hills near Belfast, to tell of the 

 second Waterloo victory of their black dog. At 

 Waterloo, it created such enthusiasm in the bosom of 

 one Celt, that having flung away his own hat, he rushed 

 at Lord Lurgan, plucked off his lordship's wideawake, 

 flung it wildly into the air, and kicked it when it came 

 down aeain. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Johnson : "Mrs. Thrale's mother said of me what flattered me very- 

 much. A clergyman was complaining of want of society in the country 

 where he lived ; and said, 'They talk of runts — that is, young cows.' 'Sir,' 

 said Mrs. Salisbury, ' Mr. Johnson would learn to talk of runts ;' mean- 

 ing that I was a man who would make the most of my situation, what- 

 ever I was." He added, " I think myself a very polite man." 



Croker's Life of Dr. Johnson, vol. vii. p. 194. 



Cheese-making in Cheshire — The late Captain White and Dr. Bellyse— 

 Mr. D. R. Davies's Herd — Cattle Plague in Cheshire — Penrhyn 

 Castle — Sir Watkin Wynn's Hounds — Mr. Naylor's Herefords. 



IF cheese had been our mission in Cheshire we 

 certainly saw plenty of it, when the County Agri- 

 cultural Society held its meeting on the Roodee, and 

 wives and spinsters crowded the long booth to look at 

 the champion lot. One of its four cheeses was 

 brought to the dinner, and was pronounced good but 

 not superfine. Mr. J. D. Harding, the professional 

 cheese-maker, who did so much towards teaching 

 Ayrshire* the Cheddar plan, spoke in the course of 



* See "Field and Fern" (South), pp. 278-285. 

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