Chapter I: Front Matter

Market Harborough

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Market Harborough

and

Inside the Bar

By
G. J. Whyte-Melville
Author of “Sarchedon,” “Cerise,” “Black but Comely,” etc.

Illustrated by John Charlton

London
Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
New York and Melbourne

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CONTENTS

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CHAP. PAGE
I. One of the “Old Sort” 9
II. “Mr. Job Sloper” 18
III. “Your Handwriting, Sir” 22
IV. Marching Orders 29
V. “Boots and Saddles” 36
VI. Hazy Weather 46
VII. A Leicestershire Lark 51
VIII. A Dove of the Same 59
IX. Four o’Clock, Stables 65
X. “Hail! Smiling Morn!” 72
XI. “A Merry Go-rounder” 80
XII. “Dead for a Ducat” 87
XIII. “After Dark” 97
XIV. “Before the Dawn” 106
XV. Taking a Hint 111
XVI. Riding to Sell 116
XVII. “Tempted to Buy” 126
XVIII. The Dove-cote 134
XIX. “The Boot on the Other Leg” 143
XX. Deeper and Deeper 148
XXI. The Magnum Bonum 154
XXII. A Wet Night 159
XXIII. Doughty Deeds 169
XXIV. The Ball 173
XXV. The Race 182
XXVI. The Match 188

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_INSIDE THE BAR._

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I. “The Genius Loci” 193
II. Tips, the Horse-breaker 207
III. Mr. Naggett 221
IV. Tom Turnbull 234
V. Old Ike, the Earth-stopper 247
VI. Miss Merlin 259
VII. Miss Merlin 272
VIII. Young Plumtree 286
IX. In the Trap 299
X. The Old Squire 312
XI. The Soakington Field-Day 325

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MARKET HARBOROUGH

OR,

_How Mr. Sawyer went to the Shires_

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