CONTENTS. 



Chap. 



I. Yorkshire Celebrities 

 II. Sport Forty Years Ago and To-Day 



III. Eton . 



IV. Artfulness and Art 

 V. The Moors 



VI. Sires and Brood Mares 

 VII. Anecdotes of Racehorses 

 VIII. Some Steeplechase Horses 

 IX. Devonshire . 

 X. Ireland 

 XI. Irish Humour 

 XII. Regimental Prisoners 



XIII. War . 



XIV. Spain . 

 XV. How Races were Won and Lost 



XVI. " Plenipo," "Colonist," and "King George 

 XVII. Training Difficulties— Spanish Justice— The Bull 

 Ring 

 XVIII. Some Racing Experiences 

 XIX. Anecdotes of Former Days 

 XX. Hunting Sketches . 

 XXI. Sir Charles Slingsby 

 XXII. With the York Packs 



XXIII. Animal Magnetism . 



XXIV. Conclusion . 



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