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PREFACE.THIS book is an account of the way in which I gained whatever knowledge I may possess about horses. Horse-lore is an extremely difficult science to acquire, owing, I believe, to its immense extent, and to the difficulty in finding out the schools in which its various branches are taught. If this story of my life among horses in many lands fails to be amusing, it may serve the useful purpose of a guide book to others who know less about horses than I do, though equally interested in them. In the teaching books which I have written on Veterinary Work, Riding, Breaking, Training, etc., I have had so much to say pertinent to the matter in hand, that I have had in them little or no opportunity of illustrating principles by the narration of my own personal experience. The good opinion of my publisher gives me the happy chance of ' holding forth' about myself; but instead of doing so with an air of superiority and assumed infallibility, I find that I have written as a student ever seeking for more light by which to acquire knowledge of the subject to which he has devoted the best years of hislife. As I have often found mistakes to be more enlightening than inspiration, I relate them both, heedless of the fact that instead of posing as a prophet, I ' give myself away ' as one who not long ago was just as ignorant about my own pet study, as anyone else. I believe that the Public and the Press are inclined to receive reminiscences with a lenient and forgiving spirit, as a sort of dying speech by those whose active life is finished. I beg, however, to disclaim such a concession ; for my wife and 1 look forward to having many more adventures in foreign lands among men and horses. The sad part of the thing is that by the time one acquires a large amount of insight into any difficult subject, one is too old to put it into practice. Happily, my stock of equine lore is far from being complete.M. H. HAYES.........CHAPTER I.Early Days in Ireland—George Hawkes—Slack-rein Riding—The Irish Famine — Old Style of Stable Management — Putting the Corn into them—Lord Fermoy—James Hayes, the Frivateersman—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.NOT long ago I casually told an experienced journalistic friend that my publishers had asked me to write for them a book on dogs. ' Do nothing of the kind/ he replied. ' The public regard you as an authority on horses. If it finds that you take up other subjects, it will imagine that you cannot know as much about horses as it thought you did ; and it will hate you under the idea that you won its regard tooeasily.' The words I knew were wise ; so I went home to repeat them to my partner. She, with a woman's keen sense of the practical, remarked that she had been waiting ' ever so long' for a windfall to buy a new dress ; that Gustave's livery bill had not been paid for the last five months; that there was nothing like having something to 'go on' with; and that I really ought to get half-a-dozen new shirt-collars for myself, as the old ones were hopelessly frayed out at the edges. Necessity prevailing over sentiment, I produced the ' copy,' sent it in, and cashed the cheque. Having done the deed, I feel more or less brazen about its accomplishment, and shall henceforth insist that the study of many subjects is imperative for the thorough acquisition of one. Hardened in my revolt, I have included among the illustrations of The Points of the Horse, photographs of an antelope, cheetah, lynx, bullock, buffalo, and a rhinoceros. I shall now go a great deal further, and say that although I have always been fond of horses, and have lived more or less among them, I have devoted myself specially to them only for the last five-and-twenty years.I was born and bred in the county of Cork, which is a very horsey part of the world. My father, who had flour mills at ...

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