Remember that you are a wholesome check."
CHAPTER III. THE "DRAGON'S HEAD."
Harold's right hand healed quickly, and was free in a few days, but
the left had to be kept for some time in a sling, and be daily
attended to, though he heeded it but little, walking miles to look at
horses and to try them, for he could manage them perfectly with one
hand, and in this way he saw a good deal of Dermot Tracy, who exerted
himself to find a horse to carry the mighty frame.
The catastrophe at the fair had gained him two friends, entirely
unlike one another--Dermot, who thenceforward viewed him with
unvarying hero-worship, and accepted Eustace as his appendage; and
George Yolland, the very reverse of all Dermot's high-bred form of
Irishism, and careless, easy self-indulgence.
A rough-hewn, rugged young man, intensely in earnest, and therefore
neither popular nor successful was that young partner of Dr.
Kingston. Had Harold been squire, the resignation of the patient
into his hands would have been less facile; but as a mere Australian
visitor, he was no prize, and might follow his own taste if he
preferred the practitioner to whom club, cottage, and union patients
were abandoned.
By him Harold was let into those secrets of the lower stratum of
society he had longed to understand. Attention to the poor boy who
had been torn by the lion brought him into the great village of
workmen's huts, that had risen up round the Hydriot clay works on the
Lerne.
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