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Title: Boy Woodburn
A Story of the Sussex Downs

Author: Alfred Ollivant

Release Date: March 11, 2006 [EBook #17965]

Language: English

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BOY WOODBURN

By the same Author:

BOB, SON OF BATTLE
THE GENTLEMAN
REDCOAT CAPTAIN
THE ROYAL ROAD
THE BROWN MARE

[Illustration: FOUR-POUND-THE-SECOND

"Look at that head-piece. He's all the while a-thinkin', that hoss is.
That's the way he's bred."]

BOY
WOODBURN

A STORY OF THE
SUSSEX DOWNS

By
ALFRED OLLIVANT

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1918

Copyright, 1918, by

Doubleday, Page & Company

All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages including the Scandinavian

TO
THE MOTHER
OF
LAUGHTER

CONTENTS

PART I
THE GIRL AND THE FOAL

BOOK I
OLD MAT

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Trainer 3

II. Boy Shows Her Metal 8

III. Goosey Gander 13

IV. The Gypsy's Mare 19

V. Across the Downs 23

VI. Putnam's 32

VII. Ally Sloper 39

VIII. The Great Beast 44

BOOK II
THE WATCHER

IX. Patience Longstaffe 55

X. Her Daughter 60

XI. Brazil Silver 69

XII. The Eton Man 76

XIII. Boy in Her Eyrie 81

XIV. Old Man Badger 90

XV. The Three J's 95

XVI. The Fat Man 100

XVII. Boy Sees a Vision 105

XVIII. Two on the Downs 114

XIX. Cannibal's National 120

XX. The Paddock Close