Photo by M. H. Hayes. 



AMONG MEN AND HORSES. 



CHAPTER I. 



Early Days in Ireland George Hawkes Slack-rein Riding The Irish 

 Famine Old Style of Stable Management Putting the Corn into 

 them Lord Fermoy James Hayes, the Privateersman Gentleman 

 Riders Dick Barry Sir John Astley Captain Machell Dr Tanner 

 Mr Dan Horgan Billiards Colonel Warburton The Dutchman 

 Captain John Bayly General 'Begorra' Brown. 



NOT long ago I casually told an experienced journalistic 

 friend that my publishers had asked me to write for 

 them a book on dogs. ' Do nothing of the kind,' he replied. 

 * The public regard you as an authority on horses. If it finds 

 that you take up other subjects, it will imagine that you can- 

 not know as much about horses as it thought you did ; and it 

 will hate you under the idea that you won its regard too 



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