Produced by David Garcia, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net BOY WOODBURN By the same Author: BOB, SON OF BATTLE THE GENTLEMAN REDCOAT CAPTAIN THE ROYAL ROAD THE BROWN MARE [Illustration: 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 foreign languages including the Scandinavian TO THE MOTHER OF LAUGHTER CONTENTS PART I THE GIRL AND THE FOAL BOOK I OLD MAT CHAPTER PAGE I. The Trainer 3 II. Boy Shows Her Metal 8 III. Goosey Gander 13 IV. The Gypsy's Mare 19 V. Across the Downs 23 VI. Putnam's 32 VII. Ally Sloper 39 VIII. The Great Beast 44 BOOK II THE WATCHER IX. Patience Longstaffe 55 X. Her Daughter 60 XI. Brazil Silver 69 XII. The Eton Man 76 XIII. Boy in Her Eyrie 81 XIV. Old Man Badger 90 XV. The Three J's 95 XVI. The Fat Man 100 XVII. Boy Sees a Vision 105 XVIII. Two on the Downs 114 XIX. Cannibal's National 120 XX. The Paddock Close 128 BOOK III SILVER MUG XXI. The Berserker Colt 137 XXII. Ragamuffin 147 XXIII. The Duke's Hounds 153 XXIV. The Man With the Gamp 160 XXV. The Black Bird 170 XXVI. Jim Silver Goes To War 179 XXVII. The Fire in the Dusk 185 XXVIII. The Fat Man Goes Under 191 Battle 193 PART II THE WOMAN AND THE HORSE BOOK IV THE TRIAL XXIX. Albert Edward 201 XXX. The Bible Class 208 XXXI. God Almighty's Mustang 221 XXXII. The Fat Man Emerges 229 XXXIII. The Gallop 234 XXXIV. The Lover's Quarrel 245 BOOK V MONKEY BRAND XXXV. The Dancer's Son 255 XXXVI. Monkey Sulks 262 XXXVII. The Early Bird 268 XXXVIII. Ikey's Own 272 XXXIX. The Queen of Kentucky 278 XL. Man and Woman 285