Photo, by M. H. Hayes. 



CHAPTER V. 



A Horse Registry — Captain Lynx — A Book on Riding — Mr Stanley Berkeley 

 — Mr Alfred Watson— The Old Caslilian— Mr Joe Radcliffe— Mr Phil. 

 Robinson — Mr Sinnett— Poker— Mr Allen — The Field— Mr Comyns Cole 

 — Mr William Martin — Mr Edwin Martin — Dalmeny and Perkun. 



HAVING left the Service, I returned in 1880 to London, 

 where I met a strange character in a Captain Lynx, 

 which was not his name, though it is near enough for the 

 purpose. He was an Irishman, and had been in the army. 

 He was mad upon getting up a horse registry, on very similar 

 lines to the one which Lord Marcus Beresford at present 

 manages. Having been talked over by Lynx, I got a major 

 in the Bengal Cavalry to join in, and we three took an office 

 and rooms in St. George's, Knightsbridge. I ' found ' the 

 money to start the campaign of saving people the trouble 

 of buying and selling horses : we would do all that for them. 

 Lynx was too hard up, and the Major and I knew too little 



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