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AMONG MEN AND HORSES. 



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CHAPTER I. 



Early Days in Ireland — George Hawkes — Slack-rein Riding — The Irish 

 Famine — Old Style of Stable Management — Putting the Corn into 

 them — Lord Fermoy — James Hayes, the Frivateersman — Gentleman 

 Riders — Dick Barry — Sir John Astley — Captain Machell — Dr Tanner 

 — Mr Dan Horgan — Billiards — Colonel Warburton — The Dutchman — 

 Captain John Bayly — General ' Begorra ' Brown. 



NOT long ago I casually told an experienced journalistic 

 friend that my publishers had asked me to write for 

 them a book on dogs. ' Do nothing of the kind/ he replied. 

 ' The public regard you as an authority on horses. If it finds 

 that you take up other subjects, it will imagine that you can- 

 not know as much about horses as it thought you did ; and it 

 will hate you under the idea that you won its regard too 



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