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INDEX. 



Anecdotes, Vol. I. — continued. 



A nobleman in Essex a first-rate 



fencer, 251. 

 The author's sowmanship, 253. 

 A dandy dealer, 282. 

 Exchanging horses bought of dealers, 



289. 

 Of George Barrington, 301. 

 Furriner, the scene in Dublin, 307. 

 A Frenchman falling down stairs, 



315. 

 Richelieu, Cardinal, 338. 

 Listen and his milk, 340. 

 The author hunting in the New 



Forest, 368. 

 Mr. Oakapple of Green Goose Hall, 



and the pickpocket, 374. 

 Nick'em getting out of a scrape, 376. 

 Of Sunny and the author, 385, 

 Old George and the milliner, 401. 

 The author's groom and his mulled 



port, 408. 

 Bottling patients, 422. 

 Introductory letter, 433. 

 A gentleman's gentleman, 443. 

 II faut qu'il I'apprenne done, 448. 



Anecdotes, Vol, II.: — 



A dealer's ideas of weight in a trial, 



35. 

 Cocoa-nut cracking. 41. 

 The author on Beggarman, 46. 

 A horse with twenty stone on him, 



55. 

 Novel mode of using horses to carry 



weight, .56. 

 The three teams, 62. 

 My glorious cousin, 67. 

 A timber hitter, 68. 

 Smith, Lord Yarborough's hunts- 

 man, 69. 

 Training a hunter for a stake, 70. 

 Rough kindness to a French officer, 



74. 

 " Trying it on " in a handicap, the 



author's obstinacy, 86. 

 Lord 's reason for betting on 



greyhounds, 87. 

 A racing marc sold by the author, 95. 

 A Idt of young ones cannot be ail 



good or all bad, 97. 

 A boy on a lazy colt, the race lost 



by it, 112. 

 Sir Sidney Meadows, 113, 

 A huntsninn not able to kill his 



foxes without capping, 119, 

 I'he author and his friend in a buggy 



with a goer, 129, 



Anecdotes, Vol, II. — continued. 

 The author's cob in a match, 1 32. 

 The author's nose, 136. 

 Sir J. M'Adam an extensive breeder 



of trotters, 139. 

 The two grey wheelers, 148. 

 Uncle Thomas travelling en famille, 



150. 

 The tailor's cur, 1 90. 

 Of two Arabs becoming ferocious, 



204. 

 A horse bought by the author of a 



dealer, rendered savage by improper 



treatment, 205, 

 A mare of the author's rendered 



vicious by ill usage from a servant, 



206, 

 A inare who would resent a blow, 



208. 

 Friglit, effects of on a Galloway, 208. 

 Brutal treatment of a cart-horse, 



234. 

 Straightlegs taught action, 235. 

 A lady who, hut for being crooked, 



would have been a fine figure, 



235. 

 A horse's action altered by Welsli 



roads, 238. 

 A pig taught high action, 239. 

 A horse cured of hanging back in 



his stall, 241. 

 Rover and the anti-comfortable 



cushion, 242. 

 Teaching a friend to command his 



temper, 246. 

 The Essex farmer and his horse, 



246. 

 Aunty, 251. 



Curricle horses, good temper of, 254, 

 Probyn and his kicker, 255, 

 A private of the household troops, 



civility of to a lady, 259. 

 Curricle horses and New Forest flics, 



261. 

 A lady, her cob alarmed by hail on 



an umbrella, 262. 

 A horse that would not permit a 



white handkerchief to be used, 



262. 

 The author succeeding in making a 



horse draw, by permitting him to 



graze, 265. 

 A biting mare and the hedgehog, 



269. 

 A regular kicker in a fix, 271. 

 Mr, Fores, his politeness, 279. 

 Comphment to a would-be painter 



on his performance, 287. 



