BOY WOODBURN

By the same Author:

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

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 foreignlanguages including the Scandinavian

TO
THE MOTHER
OF
LAUGHTER

Contents

PART I
THE GIRL AND THE FOAL

BOOK I
OLD MAT

CHAPTER

• The Trainer
• Boy Shows Her Metal
• Goosey Gander
• The Gypsy's Mare
• Across the Downs
• Putnam's
• Ally Sloper
• The Great Beast

BOOK II
THE WATCHER

• Patience Longstaffe
• Her Daughter
• Brazil Silver
• The Eton Man
• Boy in Her Eyrie
• Old Man Badger
• The Three J's
• The Fat Man
• Boy Sees a Vision
• Two on the Downs
• Cannibal's National
• The Paddock Close

BOOK III
SILVER MUG

• The Berserker Colt
• Ragamuffin
• The Duke's Hounds
• ...