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Title: Horses Nine
Stories of Harness and Saddle

Author: Sewell Ford

Release Date: November 16, 2006 [EBook #19824]

Language: English

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HORSES NINE

STORIES OF HARNESS AND SADDLE

BY
SEWELL FORD

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1905

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Copyright, 1903, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published, March, 1903

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TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK

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CONTENTS
Page

SKIPPER 1
Being the Biography of a Blue-Ribboner.

CALICO 31
Who Travelled with a Round Top.

OLD SILVER 67
A Story of the Gray Horse Truck.

BLUE BLAZES 95
And the Marring of Him.

CHIEFTAIN 125
A Story of the Heavy Draught Service.

BARNACLES 157
Who Mutinied for Good Cause.

BLACK EAGLE 181
Who Once Ruled the Ranges.

BONFIRE 215
Broken for the House of Jerry.

PASHA 241
The Son of Selim.

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ILLUSTRATIONS

By Frederic Dorr Steele and L. Maynard Dixon

By one desperate leap