Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Horses Nine, by Sewell Ford This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Author: Sewell Ford Release Date: November 16, 2006 [EBook #19824] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HORSES NINE *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net By one desperate leap he shook himself clear. (Page 263.) HORSES NINE STORIES OF HARNESS AND SADDLE BY SEWELL FORD ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1905 Copyright, 1903, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published, March, 1903 TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK Contents SKIPPER 1 Being the Biography of a Blue-Ribboner CALICO 31 Who Travelled with a Round Top OLD SILVER 67 A Story of the Gray Horse Truck BLUE BLAZES 95 And the Marring of Him CHIEFTAIN 125 A Story of the Heavy Draught Service BARNACLES 155 Who Mutinied for Good Cause BLACK EAGLE 181 Who Once Ruled the Ranges BONFIRE 213 Broken for the House of Jerry PASHA 241 The Son of Selim Illustrations By Frederic Dorr Steele and L. Maynard Dixon By one desperate leap he shook himself clear. (Page 263.) Frontispiece Facing Page There were many heavy wagons.