CONTENTS ix 



CHAPTER XVIII 



PAOB 



Some Distinctive Personalities Lord Redesdale " Honest Lord 

 Althorp " " The Colonel" Lord Tredegar A Trio of 

 Workers 189 



CHAPTER XIX 



Royalty in the Show Yard The Late King Edward Some 

 Equine Irreconcilables The Area of Responsibility The 

 Present King An Accomplished Pony and an Enterprising 

 Waiter 206 



CHAPTER XX 



An Archdeacon on Cheese And on the Trinity George Gibbons 

 " Where the best Princesses come from " The Song of 

 the Cheese 220 



CHAPTER XXI 



A Wonderful Woman A Valued) Friendship A Royal Recog- 

 nition 233 



CHAPTER XXII 



Some Show Yard Incidents The Lord and the Muck Cart 

 Horse Shoeing Liveried Splendour A Watchful Goose 

 A Missing Picture . . 240 



CHAPTER XXIII 



Some Echoes of the Past A Surprise Packet Apple Grafting 



How the Secretary was elected in old time . . . 253 



CHAPTER XXIV 



A Showman's Letter-bag Some Epistolary Singularities . . 263 



CHAPTER XXV 



Cloud and Sunshine Some Show Yard Trials The Kilburn 

 Slough The Smithfield Fog A Cornish Gale The B. & W. 

 Mess Relics of the Past 268 



CHAPTER XXVI 



Some Personal Happenings A Double-Barrelled Official A 

 Vanishing Secretary A Happy Incident A Halt on Life's 

 Highway 283 



