1809.} 
"Ere your heart be quite resign’d, 
Forget he’s tair, and think upon his mind, 
There is a question—Can a handsome 
well-bred young fellow be constant ?— 
You're a better judge of this than I am; 
but by my truly I think. there is a list of 
more good qualitys than ever fell to one 
morial’s shate; but if avy body ean tix 
the inconstant animal man, | will suppose 
it in your power, 
I have been ready to hang my selfe, to 
think [ shan’t be at Miss Banks’ wedding. 
Since I can’t, prithee do you what [ 
would do in your case—you know what 
T mean—put off your shoes and—write 
me the history of all the whole affair, 
without disguise, from the Yes pronoun- 
ced in church, to the soft No, which sig- 
nities Yes, in the bedchamber. Lord, 
Lord, what would I give to be with you, 
aud rattle away a night or two, as 
your lover says. Ha! my dear maid of 
honour, we’d dance, and talk, and sing, . 
aud be as merry, if not so we'l pleas’d, 
as the bride; the bride, and thereby hangs 
Prize Cattle. 
~E 
the tale. I hope she is wel]. I have: 
writ to her this: post; but did not tell her 
you gave me the intormation, hecause L 
did not positively know whether you'd. 
care she should be told it or no. Sweet, 
soul, your humble servant. 
I would All this side, but the post bell 
rings. 
Lo Mrs. Anne Fustice, York. 
; SRA iae sas 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, : 
FENHE prizes offered hy the Smithfield 
Club*, for the best tat cattle, sheep 
and pigs, were this year left to the dect- 
sion of Mr. Willtam Walker, of Wools 
thorp, Lincolnshire; Mr. William Wat- 
kins, of Brinsop) Herefordshire; and Mr. 
John Roper, of Potter’s Pury, Bucking~ 
hamshire; who considered the follows 
to have improved the most in flesh and 
fatness, for the quantity and kind of food 
consumed by each respectively, when dae 
allowance had been made for aye, labour 
performed, and other circumstances, viz. 
Beef, Aaols oleae Head. { Feet. | Blceod. 
PRIZE OXEN AND COWS. tbin io Pos. tbs ae die hi Noe 
Mr. Samuel Chandler’s pied Herefordshire Ox, 
worked more than two years, and fed on hay, 
turnips, and oil-cakes — - - - — eS | | | | 
Mr. Edward Anger’s dark red Sussex Ox, worked : 
two years and three-quarters, and fed on hay 
and oil-cakes - - - - = ~ {1360} 146) 122) 56] 28 | 74 
Mr. Martin Webber’s red, curled, Devonshire 
Steer, worked three years, and fed on hay and 
oil-cakes - - - - =, DS ESO LAO OL Sane 1) ieee 
Mr. Martin Webber’s. red wide-horned Devon- 
shire Ox, not worked, fed on hay and turnips |1152} 195} 96 | 351) 24 | 70 
Mr. Samuel Chandler’s dark red Herefordshire 
Ox, fed on grass and hay - Bo ek WIS S2) 208) 126) 56) Bae G4 
Mr. Samuel Brook’s dark dun Scotch Ox, fed on 
grass and hay zi See = aN 76OP 108] 86" 1 34 GO. 5B; 
Mr. John Westcar’s dark red Herefordshire Cow, | 
which had borne three calves - - 1000; 12¢) 79 | 97 | 24 |—— 
‘ Mutton) Loose } Sxius. Bibod. (u.vt: ans/ Weight 
oc Head) Fat é&c. alive, 
PRIZE SHUEEP. Toy a Ure pokiead iey lo. ib. 
No. 
Kev. Thomas Plaskett’s three-year-old new (i; 90 | 12 | 193! 7 | 192/148 
Leicester Wethiers, (travelled 120 miles in< 2/110 | 8f} 19 | O2}-17 |164 
May last), fed on grass, cole, and cabbages 3 | 92 | 12 | 173} 43) 16 }142 
Mr. Thomas Moore’s three 2-year-old new ¢ 1/151 | 173 183! 32] 153/208 
Leicester Wethers, fed on grass, hay, and< 2/147 | 142] 204) 68] 1631205 
turnips - - - - = 3/139 | 133) 164), 73] 1821195 
The Duke of Bedford’s three 1-year-old ¢1] 98 | 19 | 12 83 | —~ 
South-Down Wethers, fed on grass, hay,~ 2} 96 | 17 | 13 |——|  92j/——— 
and turnips, - - - “ 95 | 17 | 138 |——} 9 ji— 
I 
Mr. Henry King’s, jun. three 2-year-old . ae a % e a i 
South-Down Wethers, fed on grass only 3 109 47 | 19 A 1241158 
* See a similar account last year, vel. xxv. p, 108.7 
