The eldest son, the fifth lord, and immediate predecessor in the peerage of the poet, was born in 1722, entered the naval service, left his ship, the "Victory," just before she was lost on the rocks of Alderney, and subsequently became master of the stag-hounds.

[Illustration: ALDERNEY COW.]

[Illustration: ALDERNEY BULL.]

THE ALDERNEY.Among the dairy breeds of England, the Alderney takes a prominent place, not on account of the quantity of milk which it yields, but on account of the excellent quality of the cream and butter which are produced from it.

Its docility is marvellous, and in appearance it greatly resembles the Ayrshire breed of Scotland, the excellence of which is supposed to be, in some degree, derived from a mixture of the Alderney blood with that breed.

The distinction between them, however, lies both in the quantity and quality of the milk which they severally produce; that of the Alderney being rich in quality, and that of the Ayrshire abundant in quantity.

The small cows of the Alderney breed afford the richest milk.

They were as tame as so many Alderney cows, and when I walked out I got up to within twenty yards of them without any difficulty.

The ladies of Cranford had frozen him out, until the day when the cow, an Alderney cow, had broken the ice.

Miss Betsy Barker had an Alderney cow, which she looked upon as a daughter.

The whole town knew and kindly regarded Miss Betsy Barker's Alderney.

Miss Betsy Barker dried her eyes, and in a few hours the whole town turned out to see the Alderney meekly going to her pasture, clad in dark-gray flannel.

And yet in all this we are told that there is something to create extreme alarm and suspicion; we, who have never fortified any places; we, who have not a greater than Sebastopol at Gibraltar; we, who have not an impregnable fortress at Malta, who have not spent the fortune of a nation almost in the Ionian Islands; we, who are doing nothing at Alderney; we are to take offence at the fortifications of Cherbourg!

He had visited the stable, ordered the pony-carriage, seen the keeper, and been to look at an Alderney cow.

And, amused and interested by the child's earnestness, the wealthy yeoman gave her a very fine young Alderney.

Hannah's Alderney restored us to our rural privilege.

We steered as near to Alderney, or Aurigni as it is frequently called, as prudence warranted.

Or it might be the Alderney cow or the poultry at the Home Farm, or a few fresh tiles on the roof of the pig-sty, which was decaying.

He would carry his gun across to the Home Farm, and knock over a rabbit on the way; then spend two hours looking at the Alderney cow, the roof of the pig-sty, and the poultry, and presently stroll across a corner of the wood, and shoot a pheasant.

The careful superintendence of the Alderney cow, the cucumber frames, and the rabbits, might all be carried out for the very best of objects, the good of his children.

" "Returning from the Fair" shows a group of Alderney cattle in a road curving through a forest.

Between the Maquoketa and Independence I lost N.V. Creede, merely because I traded for some more lame cows and a young Alderney bull, and had to stop to break them.

(2), one of the Channel Islands, 3 or 4 m. long by 2 broad, celebrated for its breed of cows; separated from Cape de la Hogue by the dangerous Race of Alderney. AL`DERSHOT, a permanent camp, established in 1855, for instruction in military manoeuvres, on a moorland 35 m. SW. of London.

And, Cleo, I reckon that father will sell The Croft, and the little real Alderney, Bel.

So I came to myself in the boat in which they took me on board the lugger that was waiting for us; and instead of making for Alderney, as I had intended, so as to get the knot safely tied to your satisfaction, they sailed straight for Havre.