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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 5 th 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 



