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It has been said that Fairthorn had committed to a certain letter his last desperate hope that something might yet save Fawley from demolition, and himself and his master from an exile's home in that smiling nook of earth to which Horace invited Septimius, as uniting the advantages of a mild climate, excellent mutton, capital wine; and affording to Septimius the prospective privilege of sprinkling a tear over the cinder of his poetical friend while the cinder was yet warm; inducements which had no charm at all to Fairthorn, who was quite satisfied with the Fawley southdowns held in just horror all wishy-washy light wines and had no desire to see Darrell reduced to a cinder for the pleasure of sprinkling that cinder with a tear.
"Br the Lord, Harry!" cried the squire, as he stood with his wife in the park, on a visit of inspection to some first-rate Southdowns just added to his stock, "by the Lord, if that is not Randal Leslie trying to get into the park at the back gate! Hollo, Randal! you must come round by the lodge, my boy," said he. "You see this gate is locked to keep out trespassers." "A pity," said Randal.
The enquirer who undertakes the study of it will sometimes be scarcely less surprised than would be the naturalist who should unexpectedly stumble upon antediluvian megatheria grazing tranquilly in the same field with prize Southdowns.
As he entered the parlour, John's face grew bright, and he held out his hand to him; but he got rather a cool reception from the pair at the window. Old John and he were as father and son, and sat there before the cheerful blaze smoking their pipes. "How are your Southdowns looking, Jim?" says the vicar. "How is Scapegrace Hamlyn?" "He is very well, sir.
"A very good rain, sir," replied Jim. "Some idiots," said the Doctor, "take the wing bones out first. Now, my method of beginning at the legs and working forward, is infinitely superior. Yet that ass at Crediton, after I had condescended to show him, persisted his own way was the best." All this time he was busy skinning his bird. "How are your Southdowns looking, Jim?" says the Vicar.
Give to Nature every cultured apple codling, pippin, russet and every sheep so laboriously compounded muffled Southdowns, hairy Cotswolds, wrinkled Merinos and she would throw the one to her caterpillars, the other to her wolves.
The home-farm of Drohoregan Manor has long been celebrated for the breeding of a high-class stock of all kinds. I saw sheep there scarcely coarser than the average of Southdowns; and some fine, level, clean-limbed steers. Here has stood, for a dozen years past, the renowned Black Hawk, considered by many superior to his sire, the Morgan stallion of the same name.
"How many sheep have you, uncle?" asked Miss Laura. "Only fifty, now. Twenty-five here and twenty-five down below in the orchard. I've been selling a good many this spring." "These sheep are larger than those in the orchard, aren't they?" said Miss Laura. "Yes; I keep those few Southdowns for their fine quality. I don't make as much on them as I do on these Shropshires.
"Let some critic of reputation once start the idea, and you'll have the good London folk who won't bother to read him for themselves, declaring him as fine as Shakespeare. The dear English muttons! fine Southdowns! fleecy baa-lambs! once let the Press-bell tinkle loudly enough across the fields of literature, and they'll follow, bleating sweetly in any direction!
Sure enough, there they were, the fat Southdowns, tearing like mad across the field, the sound of their trampling reaching us, with the entire pack at their heels, the pointers well in the lead. Such a chase as we had trying to catch that pack of mischievous dogs! Finally we got them in; but not before the whole occurrence had been seen at the house.
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