PATROCLUS AND PENELOPE

A Chat in the Saddle

BY

THEODORE AYRAULT DODGE

BREVET LIEUTENANT-COLONEL UNITED STATES ARMY, RETIRED LIST;
AUTHOR OF "THE CAMPAIGN OF CHANCELLORSVILLE,"
"A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF OUR CIVIL WAR," ETC., ETC.

BOSTON
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1885

Copyright, 1885,
By THEODORE AYRAULT DODGE.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.

To
THE COUNTRY CLUB OF BOSTON,
WHICH HAS FOSTERED A TRUE APPRECIATION
OF GOOD HORSEMANSHIP IN OUR CITY OF BEAUTIFUL ENVIRONMENTS,
AND WHOSE GENEROUS AND ABLE ADMINISTRATION
HAS AFFORDED THE LOVERS OF THE SADDLE
SO MANY OCCASIONS OF RARE ENTERTAINMENT,
These Pages are Inscribed
BY
A MEMBER.

Since—as it has been our fortune to be long engaged about horses—we consider that we have acquired some knowledge of horsemanship, we desire also to intimate to the younger part of our friends how we think that they may bestow their attention on horses to the best advantage.

Xenophon on Horsemanship, I. I.

Transcriber's Note: The Contents have been moved from the end of the book to the beginning.

CONTENTS.