Chapter I: Front Matter

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A LAD OF METTLE

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NAT GOULD’S SPORTING NOVELS

_Crown 8vo., Picture Boards._

THE DOUBLE EVENT
RUNNING IT OFF
JOCKEY JACK
HARRY DALE’S JOCKEY
BANKER AND BROKER
THROWN AWAY
STUCK UP
ONLY A COMMONER
THE MINERS’ CUP
THE MAGPIE JACKET
WHO DID IT?
HORSE OR BLACKSMITH?
NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL
SEEING HIM THROUGH

_Also, uniform with the above_,

ON AND OFF THE TURF IN AUSTRALIA
TOWN AND BUSH
THE DOCTOR’S DOUBLE
A LAD OF METTLE

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A LAD OF METTLE

by

NAT GOULD

Author of ‘The Double Event,’ etc.

London George Routledge and Sons, Limited Broadway, Ludgate Hill

To MY SONS.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. BULLY RAKES TAKEN DOWN 9

II. IN THE CRICKET-FIELD 19

III. A CRITICAL MOMENT 28

IV. LEAVING SCHOOL 38

V. A FURIOUS STORM 46

VI. THE ‘DISTANT SHORE’ 55

VII. WHAT THE MORNING BROUGHT FORTH 64

VIII. IN WAL JESSOP’S COTTAGE 74

IX. UP COUNTRY 83

X. A WILD SCENE 92

XI. YACKA THE BLACK 101

XII. IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURES 110

XIII. BY THE LAGOON 119

XIV. ON THE OVERLAND LINE 129

XV. THROUGH THE RANGES 139

XVI. AFTER THE FIGHT 148

XVII. WONDROUS CAVERNS 158

XVIII. THE WHITE SPIRIT 167

XIX. THE FORCES OF NATURE 176

XX. THE RETURN TO YANDA 186

XXI. AN EXCITING CHASE 195

XXII. TIME FLIES 204

XXIII. AN EVENTFUL NIGHT 214

XXIV. HOME AGAIN 223

XXV. THE SCENE AT LORD’S 232

XXVI. AN UPHILL GAME 241

XXVII. THE CAPTAIN OR HIS GHOST 250

XXVIII. A STRANGE STORY 259

XXIX. WARLIKE SPORTS 269

XXX. GOOD-BYE TO AUSTRALIA 278

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