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their old age jockeys have been sometimes left with 

 scanty means of existence. 



To promote so good a purpose surely every sports- 

 man, every man who enters the field to participate in 

 the thrilling pleasures of the chase, would be anxious to 

 contribute and secure for those men who so frequently 

 risk their lives and limbs in the service of fox-hunting 

 a comfortable annuity when age, accidents, or in- 

 firmities render them incapable of ' active service.' 

 Englishmen are bountiful to excess in many things, 

 especially when a combination of good intentions can 

 be displayed and the subject is taken up by persons of 

 influence and energy. It is the beginning that imposes 

 the difficulty; that overcome, there can be no doubt 

 that the fund would flourish most extensively. 



