CHAPTER XIV 

 TWO MYSTERIES 



NOT being a literary genius like my 

 cousin Dion Clajrton Calthrop, I 

 suspect this book to be full of trans- 

 gressions agaiQst recognised literary canons ; 

 but it seemed good to try to avoid strewing 

 its pages with an everlasting first personal 

 pronoun singular, and in this I have managed 

 hitherto to succeed ; but the incidents to be 

 related in this last chapter are so very personal 

 to myself that it has been beyond my ability 

 to handle them in the same impersonal way. 



To the man who regards his horses merely 

 as so many racing or hauhng machines for 

 making money, this and the previous chapter 

 will have no interest, and may appear ridicul- 

 ous. There are others, and I beheve a good 

 many, who will appreciate the bearing of these 

 experiences, which occurred exactly as I have 

 related them, upon the psychological inter- 

 relationship of men and animals. At aU events 



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