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Title: Among men and horses
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Hayes, M. Horace (Matthew Horace), 1842-1904
Subjects: Horses Horses — Training
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead & company
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University
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of the time appointedfor starting, the gentleman who was to have financed theteam failed to produce the passage money, so Mr Ashe, feel-ing that he had unwittingly bound himself to the engagementsmade, joined in with Mr Read. Though the team won allits matches in South Africa, it was not, as might have beenexpected, a success. The Ward-Vernon troupe were, on thewhole, a capable lot. Miss Genevieve Ward is a Jewess ofromantic history. She has a grand style and has a rich, deepmusical voice to aid it. Years ago she made a great sensa-tion in London by her playing in Forget-me-not. Old play-goers consider that since the days of Mrs Siddons no actresshas played the part of Queen Catherine, the hapless wife ofHenry VIII., so powerfully as Miss Ward has done. Herlast success was at the Lyceum as Queen Eleanor in Tenny-sons Becket. She reminds me a good deal of that greattragic actress, the late Miss Glynn. Mr Vernon and hisfellow player and passenger, Mr Gofton, are clever, and haveno side.
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CHAPTER XVI. Horsebreaking in Cape Town—Englishmen in South Africa—Social Equality—No Style—Sir Henry Loch—Port Elizabeth—A Stranded While Man—A Cockney and a Mule—A Real Showman— Outside of the Ring,please—Killing Horses—Rockwell—Driving Tandem without Reins orTraces — A Cafe aa lait funker — October, the Basuto Kafir — MrHilton Barber—South African Farmers—Cauliflowers Three Shillingsa Piece—South African Horses—Horse Sickness—Defeated by a Mare—Bloemfontein — Orange Free State Boers—Colesberg—Candlemas andBelladrum—Roaring. SLEEPY, old, semi-Dutch Cape Town looked a terriblyunpromising place in which to start a horse show. Likeat Singapore, all the residents (to use an Irishism) lived outof it. During the day, they worked in their offices, like beesin their hives ; but by six oclock in the evening, they hadflitted to their homes miles away in the picturesque surround-ing country, leaving the streets empty of carriage and rider.Their
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