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Title: Old Man Curry
Race Track Stories
Author: Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
Release Date: June 10, 2009 [eBook #29093]
Language: English
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OLD MAN CURRY
Race Track Stories
by
CHARLES E. VAN LOAN
* * * * *
THE BOOKS OF
CHARLES E. VAN LOAN
_Memorial Edition_
OLD MAN CURRY
STORIES OF THE RACE TRACK
WITH INTRODUCTION BY
L. B. YATES
* * * * *
OLD MAN CURRY
Race Track Stories
by
CHARLES E. VAN LOAN
Introduction by L. B. Yates
New York
George H. Doran Company
MCMXIX
Copyright, 1917,
by George H. Doran Company
Copyright, 1915-6, by P. F. Collier & Son, Incorporated
Printed in the United States of America
My Dear "Purdue" McCormick:--
It is customary to dedicate a book, the author selecting a good
natured person to stand sponsor for his work. There are 100,000,000
people in this country, and I have selected you as Old Man Curry's
godfather. When you reflect upon this statistical statement, the size
of the compliment should impress you.
Then too, you love a good horse--I have often heard you say so. You
love a good horse in spite of the fact that you once harnessed
Colonel Jack Chinn's thoroughbred saddle animal to a trap, the
subsequent events producing a better story than any you will find in
these pages. Nevertheless, my dear sir, they are respectfully, even
firmly dedicated to you.
Yours very sincerely,
CHARLES E. VAN LOAN
To E. O. McCormick,
San Francisco, Cal.
INTRODUCTION
BY L. B. YATES
It is one of life's tragedies that as we go along we realize the
changes that come upon almost everything with which we used to be
associated. And this is noticeable not only in ordinary affairs,
whether it be in business or in the home, but it obt
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