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diary, and say a word about Faraway. He 

 was an Irish thoroughbred, by Fairyland, 

 purchased at Tattersall's in 1880, from the 

 stud of chestnuts sent up by Captain 

 Amcotts, of the 5th Dragoon Guards. 

 He was knocked down to me for fifty 

 guineas. I followed him back to his box, 

 and when I asked the groom why he had 

 only two old shoes on, and what was wrong 

 with the brute, he said, " Sure, he's a grand 

 hunter, and nothing wrong wid him ; but 

 ye can't shoe him, clip him, or physic him." 

 Some years after I found that he had killed 

 a blacksmith just before I bought him ; he 

 was quite capable of killing any number of 

 that profession or any other yet it was 

 not temper, but fear and nerves, that made 

 him dangerous. Fast as the wind, hard 



