CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



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

 Old Style of Stable Management — Putting the Corn into them — Lord 

 Fermoy — James Hayes, the Privateersman — 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, page I 



CHAPTER II. 



The Royal Military Academy— School Riding— Baucher— Pugilism— Bill Richard- 

 son — Joe Nolan — Rowing — Joe Sadler— Jim Pudney — Fairplay in England 

 —Mitchell— Bat Mullins, 26 



CHAPTER III. 



India — Sport as a Training — Cultivation of Pluck — Conscience — Swadharm — My 

 First Book — Literary Style — Life in India — Riding Buckjumpers — Steve 

 Margarett — Lord Lansdowne — Buckjumping defined — Buffalo Bill — Acci- 

 dents — Fear of Death — Sir Lyon Playfair — Livingstone — Rustem Pasha — 

 Sir Edward Bradford— Sanson — Madame Dubarry — De Thou— Cartouche 

 — Durman Dakoits— Balthazar Gerard— Effect of Nervous Shock on Animals 

 and on Prize-fighters, 34 



CHAPTER IV. 



Training Horses for Racing — Watering Horses — Stable Management — Wasting 

 — Charlie Bailey — Colonel Locke Elliott — Ben Roberts — East Indian 

 Horses — Australian Horses — Arab Horses — Sheikh Esa bin Curtas — 

 Veterinary Work — How Ideas come to Authors — Professor Williams — 

 Salmon Fishing — Professor Dick — Dr Fleming — Veterinary Surgeons — 

 'The Buffs' — Leaving the Service, 51 



