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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