“The ox I won the first prize with at the
Smithfield Show last year ({[ 65) (and the best
Least of the class shown, ninety competitors) |
so bought as a three-year-old (with many more)
for £17 (#85), lean. He ran with the other
steers, and was put up with them to fat, and |
never thought of sending him to the Smithfield
till two months before the show, as I never sent
a beast there before. After the show I sold him
to a London butcher to kill for £70 ($350).
There is a wretched print of him in the London
shops. The painter who did his picture for me
is Mr. Davis, animal painter to the Queen, and
lives at Chelsea. He has made a very good col-
ored engraving, and one of which I shall be
very happy to procure for you, if you will have
the goodness to write to me when you arrive
next summer in England.
“We breed some pretty good Leicester sheep
in Warwickshire. My bailiff will be happy to
show you anything I may have, if you are likely
to be that way. I only breed sheep—we con-
sider nothing like the Leicester for long wool,


HEREFORD


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and Southdowns for short. A Leicester tup has
been known to let for the season for £1,000.
My House in London is 7 Carlton Gardens.
“Your obedient servant,
" “WARWICK.
