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Cruickshank's well-matured opinion, resulting from long experience and observation, that there is no breed of cattle so easily maintained in good condition as the Shorthorns. His are fed on pasture grass from the 1st of May to the middle of October, lying in the open field night and day. In the winter they are fed entirely on oat-straw and turnips. Not a handful of hay or of meal is given them.
Cruickshank went home and wrote a challenge to Innes, and Innes went home and wrote one to Cruickshank. They met and fought at Laurencekirk: Major C. Robertson, Kindface, Invergordon, was Cruickshank's second, and Dr Hoyle, Montrose, was in attendance as surgeon. was Innes's second, and Dr Skene, Aberdeen, his surgeon.
However, in April 1885, when the Prince of Wales visited Ireland, and the constabulary from country districts were drafted into the towns through which he had to pass, a number of disguised Nationalists entered Cruickshank's house at night. They gave him a frightful beating, even breaking a gun on his head, which was seriously injured.
Bates would have voted for the Metropole, and McGill had been advised that you saw a good deal of life at the Cecil, but they bowed to Cruickshank's experience.
In these respects, no less than in the others, he justified Mr Cruickshank's selection. He did his work as unobtrusively as he did it admirably well; and for the rest he was just washed about, carried, hither and thither, generally on the tops of omnibuses, receptive, absorbent, mostly silent.
At the second shot Mr Innes was wounded in the thigh; and it was a close shave on the other side, for Mr Innes's ball went through Mr Cruickshank's whiskers. Mr Innes, however, kept his appointment with Mr Stewart next morning. Mr Stewart said that he met him at Durris House at breakfast.
By the connivance of the under-sheriff he was cut down within the legal time, and instantly put into a chaise and four; so that, when he reached Cruickshank's he was positively not dead. Mr. , a young student at that time, had the honor of giving him the coup de grâce, and finishing the sentence of the law."
Cruickshank's name alone would have filled the courthouse, and people would have gone away quoting him. From the first word of the case for the prosecution there was that in the leading counsel's manner a gravity, a kindness, an inclination to neglect the commoner methods of scoring that suggested, with the sudden chill of unexpectedly bad news, a foregone conclusion.
"But I guess the Squire did go off his head a little." "Have they anything more than Indian evidence?" asked Advena. "We don't know what they've got," said her brother darkly "and we won't till Wednesday, when they expect to get round to it." "Indian evidence will be a poor dependence in Cruickshank's hands," Mr Murchison told them, with a chuckle.
The truculent Dowler figured before in "The Tuggs at Ramsgate" a very amusing and Pickwickian tale under the title of Capt. Waters, who exhibits the same simulated ferocity and jealousy of his spouse. Cruickshank's sketch, too, of the Captain is like that of Dowler when throwing up the window in the Crescent. Mrs. Waters is made as attractive as Mrs.
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