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of Others of the old school down to the more recent 

 days of the present, Messrs. Barrow, Gresson, Deakin, 

 Turner, Allen, Stokes, Wheeler, etc., etc. How 

 greatly the Editor has been assisted in the present chapter 

 by those who have qobly answered Mr. Myers' call the 

 foregoing pages will most amply testify, and though the 

 data may be still capable of further elaboration by the 

 author, whose duty it will some day be to republish this 

 book, it is in all humility advanced that enough has, 

 perhaps, at present been said to give the indulgent reader 

 some insight into the beginnings of the sport which we so 

 ardently pursue to-day, and some slight introduction to 

 the many good men and true to whose sporting instincts 

 and to whose keenness paperchasing in Calcutta owes its 

 inception. 



