CONTENTS 



FAGE 



A Question of Bits 



Phyllis and Ophelia ......... 19 



A Good Day 40 



The Great Dowxshire Handicap 59 



His 0\vn Petard 81 



A Short Head . 98 



A EuN 118 



The Wrong Man 139 



A Good Thing I57 



Too Clever . . . 178 



Fox-hunting: a Sketch for Boys 202 



A Lucky Mistake .......... 213 



A Morning at Newmarket ........ 233 



Making the Running 252 



Steeple-Chasing .......... 275 



The Derby ......... 292 



The Discomfiture of Mrs. Trimmings . 



316 



An Over-reach 32g 



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