CONTENTS. 



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The Flea-bitten Grey i 



The Squire 5 



The Sporting Parson 8 



Dairymaid 11 



A Day in the Vale 13 



Twelve Miles in the Open 16 



The Pace was Too Good to Inquire - - - 19 



Riding and Reason 21 



There's Life in the Old Horse Yet - - - 24 



Foreman 27 



A Deal with an Irish Horse Dealer at a Wiltshire 



Fair 30 



The Grave in the Vale 33 



Lord Lonsdale's Drive 35 



The Senators' Race 37 



A Plea for the Royal Buckhounds - - - - 39 



The Music of the Wheel 42 



The Bonny Grey Mark 49 



Hark Forrard, Hark Forrard Away - - - 52 



The Fireman 54 



Salisbury Cathedral 57 



The Country Banker 60 



A Blighted Life 63 



The Voices in the Vale 65 



The Piccadilly Sportsman 68 



Sess! Sess! or a Spring Morning in the Kennels 



with the Netton Harriers 72 



Good-bye to the Chase : or the Song of the Dying 



Huntsman 75 



Appendix 78 



