CHAPTER XXVI. 



THE TRAINING GR(JOM CONVERSING PRIVATELY WITH 

 THREE OF HIS BEST RIDING BOYS. 



The trainer takes an opportunity in clue time, 

 as on some morning after the stables are shut 

 up, of saying to the boys Sam, Bill, and Tom. 

 whom we have mentioned in the last chapter, 

 " You will come to me in my private room, 

 after you have had your breakfast." The boys 

 having assembled in the room, the conversation 

 that takes place between the parties will be 

 much to the following effect: — " I have sent for 

 you three boys, for the purpose of cautioning 

 each of you to keep your tongues very still; 

 not, I confess, that I have any reason to find 

 fault with any of you for not having kept them 

 so, as regards what any of the horses we have 



