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the latter the second prize, in the shearling class (30 entries, 
4 absent), while the precedence was reversed in the class for 
older rams (19 entries, 3 absent), and in both classes I\Ir. George 
Turner, jun., showed the third prize sheep, winning also second 
to the executors of Mr. Francis Jordan for a good pen of ewes 
in a class of 9 entries, only one of which was absent. In a class 
of only 4 entries, Mr. George Turner's lambs, scarcely fair 
representatives of the produce of the Thorpelands flock (the 
season has been bad for lambs), were placed second to those of 
Messrs. Green and Son, exhibitors of the only pen which com- 
peted with his three pens. It was, perhaps, the loss of true 
Leicester character rather than faultiness of the animals, irre- 
spective of breed, that detracted from the excellence of the 
Leicester classes. Looked at simply as sheep, from a rent-paying 
point of view, there were plenty of rams good enough to make 
a tenant-farmer's mouth water ; while judged as Leicesters, with 
a certain well-defined standard in the mind's eye, many of the 
same sheep were found wanting. As some connoisseur parted the 
wool, a shake of the head, if indeed the word " Lincoln " were 
not distinctly uttered, indicated the tenour of his thoughts. 
Mr. Borton's flock, deep in "Sir Tatton" and "Blair Athol" blood, 
latterly crossed with carefully selected rams from Mr. F. Spencer's 
and Mr. S. Spencer's flocks, had a noticeable representative in 
the first-prize shearling ram, a good thick, " upstanding " sheep, 
with great legs of mutton, and deep-fleshed throughout ; but 
his wool was the subject of comment in the Judges' Report, as 
given above ; and INIr. Hutchinson's shearlings, with plenty of 
size, good loins, and amply expanded frames, showed much 
of the influence of their well-known sire, "Royal Liverpool. ' 
His two-shear ram, as already noticed, took leading honours in 
the aged class, " Royal Liverpool ' being absent. 
The Border Leicesters numbered 29 entries — 14 from 
Northumberland, 11 from Yorkshire, and 4 only from the 
Scottish side of the Tweed ; all the latter from Roxburghshire, 
and belonging to one exhibitor, Mr. Thompson of Kelso. The 
inspectors of shearing had duties as difficult as thev were un- 
pleasant to perform, and were constantly hitting, like the cat- 
o'-nine-tails, either too high or too low. It was said that in the 
Leicester classes they had erred on the side of mercy, in those 
of Border Leicesters on the other side ; so they may be con- 
gratulated, if not on having given satisfaction to all parties, at 
least on having incurred opposite charges, a fact somewhat 
consolatory to conscientious men who have done a painful 
duty. Border Leicesters made certainly a small show, but 
the merit of the animals throughout the classes amply com- 
pensated for shortcomings in number. Mr. Richard Tweedle, 
