The Chronicle Years

By Vivian Roycroft

For a decade, between the late 1970s and the equally late 1980s, I was honored to publish several brief articles in the excellent equestrian magazine, The Chronicle of the Horse. Their superb editors also accepted, albeit with what reluctance they were too generous to admit, a number of my scribbled poems, more properly described as doggerel. This ebook is a compilation of those works.

In addition to thirteen poems and three short articles — The Importance of Engagement, Warm Up and Cool Down, and Showing a Horse on the Triangle — this ebook also includes two samples of my fiction, one from a Regency romance and the other from a World War II mystery~adventure, both showcasing these magnificent animals we love. Hopefully you’ll enjoy this offering, and if you don’t, blame me, not the Chronicle.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dingbat Publishing
• Release date: Oct 11, 2013
• ISBN: 9781940520032

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The Chronicle Years

Vivian Roycroft

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Copyright © 1979–1987, 2011–2013 by Vivian Roycroft

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Dingbat Publishing

Humble, Texas

Copyright © 1979–1987, 2011–2013 by Vivian Roycroft

All rights reserved

ISBN 978-1-940520-03-2

Dingbat Publishing

Humble, Texas

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Mischief on Albemarle

Copyright © 2013 by Vivian Roycroft

Published (2013) by Astraea Press LLC

Reprinted with permission

Deal with the Devil

Copyright © 2011 by J. Gunnar Grey

Originally published (2011) by Astraea Press LLC

Republished (2013) by Dingbat Publishing

Most poems and all articles originally published by The Chronicle of the Horse 1979–1987

All but First Rights retained by the author

For my sister Debra, her son Kevin, and her wonderful granddaughter Alyssa — three special people, and shoppers extraordinaire.

Foreword

For a decade, between the late 1970s and the equally late 1980s, I was honored to publish several brief articles in the excellent equestrian magazine, The Chronicle of the Horse. Their superb editors also accepted, albeit with what reluctance they were too generous to admit, a number of my scribbled poems, more properly described as doggerel. This ebook is a compilation of those works.

In addition to thirteen poems and three short articles — The Importance of Engagement, Warm Up, Cool Down, and Showing a Horse on the Triangle — this ebook also includes two samples of my fiction, one from a Regency romance and the other from a World War II mystery~adventure, both showcasing these magnificent animals we love. Hopefully you’ll enjoy this offering. If you don’t, blame me, not the Chronicle. As I said, they’re generous people.

Vivian

Hounds’ Calls

She’s big and bold and loves to run,

That bay I bought last fall;

Her name’s Aggravation

But it’s no indication

For she loves to hear hounds call.

She earned her name by