. Echoes of old county life : being recollections of sports, politics, and farming in the good old times. defendants witness fully estab-lishes our case. If yourself and the jury are satisfiedthat these buildings were destroyed by a spark from theengine, it shows there was great carelessness on the partof the servants of the defendants, and I therefore claimthe verdict. The learned judge summed up, and thejury gave a verdict for the plaintiff. Some weeks afterwards the locomotive superintendent A RAILWAY CASE. 229 of the line called upon me, and, in conversation aboutthe trial, said that the e
. Echoes of old county life : being recollections of sports, politics, and farming in the good old times. defendants witness fully estab-lishes our case. If yourself and the jury are satisfiedthat these buildings were destroyed by a spark from theengine, it shows there was great carelessness on the partof the servants of the defendants, and I therefore claimthe verdict. The learned judge summed up, and thejury gave a verdict for the plaintiff. Some weeks afterwards the locomotive superintendent A RAILWAY CASE. 229 of the line called upon me, and, in conversation aboutthe trial, said that the evidence of their own witnesseshad been absolutely correct, that it was quite impossiblefor that engine to have set fire to any place ; but, hesaid, the buildings were burnt by the sparks of anotherof our engines, which had gone up the line a few minutesbefore the one in question ; and this fact I knew per-fectly, and so did the drivers of the engines allthrough the trial! The jurys verdict, as so often isthe case, though wrong on the actual strict facts of thecase before them, was just in CHAPTER XV. Shorthorn Breeding-—The Bates Dinners—Lord Dunmore to theRescue—Eminent Breeders in the Palmy Days—My Sale andSales in General—The Rose of the Quarter Sessions—A Dis-sertation on Poultry—The Prebendal Geese—The AylesburyDuckling—A Year of Wet and a Year of ^Var—A LegalDecision on Crops. For many years I was prominently associated with thefascinating pursuit of shorthorn cattle breeding. Theshorthorn world was divided into two schools, theBates and Booth admirers. My delight in theKnightley or Fawsley breed, a strain of great purityestablished by Sir Charles Knightley, of Fawsley inNorthamptonshire, had induced me to throw in mylot with the former tribe. The last chapter partook of the nature of agastronomical treatise, but I cannot refrain fromsupplementing its narrative by some mention of theBates dinners, banquets given by the leaders of thosegentl
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