This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...a seet we all were! and didn't t' horse tails wag when we pulled up for a minit or sea at Kerby. 'Jack, they mun kill him, ' says yan; 'Jack, I's about at t' far end, ' says another; 'They han't killed him yit, onyhow, ' says I, as I saw them race away again, pointing for t' Black Bull, an away agean faster than iwer ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...a seet we all were! and didn't t' horse tails wag when we pulled up for a minit or sea at Kerby. 'Jack, they mun kill him, ' says yan; 'Jack, I's about at t' far end, ' says another; 'They han't killed him yit, onyhow, ' says I, as I saw them race away again, pointing for t' Black Bull, an away agean faster than iwer to't Whitby Railway, near Marishes Station. Sean efter we cros't t' railway I spied Maister Rennard sitting on t' middle o't' road lissening for t' hounds, and there he wad a' sitten till t' hounds had gitten up tiv him, nae doubt, if a fond feller whea yan wad think had nivver seen a fox afore, hadn't shouted Tally-ho! and away he went, sea fresh, that thinks I, thou's not catched yit, and I was reet, for fower mile further he teuk us over a terrible heavy and stiff country, past Allerston on to Ebberston, then to Yedingham, where he was sae tired he couldn't loup t' stile, and Rantipole getting a seet of him, it was sean who whoop. Now what do you think of that Mr. Heditor 1 Just three hours an' twenty minutes fra t' find t' kill, twenty miles as't crow flees, an' nut a yed less than thirty miles as t' hounds ran. If you wad like to kno whea was t' best man at t' finish, why I can tell ye, it was Lord Helmsley, yan o't' canniest young gentlemen as ivver lived, an as good a rider across country as ivver sat astride of a horse. Lord Castleray didn't gan badly, neither did Mr. James Duncombe, but then they had twea horses apiece, and Lord Helmsley only yan, but he was a clinker, an I durst bet a wager, if his Lordship lives for 50 years to cum, an I seer I wish lie may, hell niwer ride a better. But we all did t' best we could to see t' kill, and that's t' laug an t' short on't. I niwer saw sike a run, and sal nivver see sike another as lang as my
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Add this copy of In the North Countree: Annals and Anecdotes of Horse, to cart. $29.95, very good condition, Sold by Bookworks rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1889 by Simpkin, Marshall and Company.
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Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. Book Early imprint dated 1889 on the title page with no additional printing history. Clean and tightly bound in maroon cloth with gilded titles and three-color embossed imagery. Very light edge and shelf wear, Very Good plus. The contents include a number of foldout horse pedigree charts and illustrations with a history of breeding, fox hunting and horse-related events. Very light shelf wear with clean text. This copy is from a 19th Century private lending institution, the Mercantile Library of New York City. There is a handwritten number and Mercantile Library stamp on the title page and some of the internal pages. There are no other indications of the library's ownership. a very nice copy. International shipping may require added postage charges.
Add this copy of In the North Countree: Annals and Anecdotes of Horse, to cart. $68.07, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
