INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS
LEVELLING WITH ELISHA
PLAYING EVEN FOR OBADIAH
BY A HAIR
THE LAST CHANCE
SANGUINARY JEREMIAH
ELIPHAZ, LATE FAIRFAX
THE REDEMPTION HANDICAP
A MORNING WORKOUT
EGYPTIAN CORN
THE MODERN JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON
Title: Old Man Curry
Race Track Stories
Author: Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
THE BOOKS OF
CHARLES E. VAN LOAN
Memorial Edition
OLD MAN CURRY
STORIES OF THE RACE TRACK
WITH INTRODUCTION BY
L. B. YATES
OLD MAN CURRY
RACE TRACK STORIES
BY
CHARLES E. VAN LOAN
INTRODUCTION BY
L. B. YATES
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
MCMXIX
COPYRIGHT, 1917,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1915-6, BY P. F. COLLIER & SON, INCORPORATED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
My Dear "Purdue" McCormick:—
It is customary to dedicate a book, the author selecting a good natured person to stand sponsor for his work. There are 100,000,000 people in this country, and I have selected you as Old Man Curry's godfather. When you reflect upon this statistical statement, the size of the compliment should impress you.
Then too, you love a good horse—I have often heard you say so. You love a good horse in spite of the fact that you once harnessed Colonel Jack Chinn's thoroughbred saddle animal to a trap, the subsequent events producing a better story than any you will find in these pages. Nevertheless, my dear sir, they are respectfully, even firmly dedicated to you.
Yours very sincerely,
Charles E. Van Loan
To E. O. McCormick,
San Francisco, Cal.
