PREFACE 



THE following pages, which ought, perhaps, to be entitled " A 

 Globe-trotter's Pot au Feu of Horse-flesh, with a Seasoning of 

 Chestnuts," recall to the author's mind the story of the old Yan- 

 kee who, in default of other books, read Webster's Unabridged 

 through from beginning to end, and then remarked that it was 

 mighty interesting reading, especially the pictures, but it didn't 

 seem to have much plot. May the author ask for the gentle 

 reader's patience if he finds the same lack of sequence between 

 these covers? 



And yet there is a motif running through them, which the good 

 American horse-lover will not find it hard to follow. 







BROOKLINE, MASS., 1893. 



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