Mr. Sawyer, one of the old sort, takes his horses to Market Harborough for a season in the Shires, with schemes to buy and sell hunters and win a heart. Leicestershire larks, horse-coping, dances and hazy weather follow. The companion piece, Inside the Bar, is a shorter comic tale.
Whyte-Melville knew the hunting field intimately and died in it; these are his liveliest pictures of it. Download the free EPUB.