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I should say was) an utter stranger to me. I bought 

 his book when I was a lad, many years ago, and I can- 

 not say that I have since met with any thing more 

 purely original. Mr. Osbaldiston's " British Sports- 

 man," it is evident, is faithfully drawn from nature, by 

 a thorough-bred sportsman in the field, instead of being 

 imperfectly copied from other works, by a hackney quill- 

 driver in the metropolis. This work, in short, as well 

 as Bewick's, may be considered as one of the fine old 

 standards, from which many a book-pirate has torn the 

 colours that he sails under ; or, as the peacock, in whose 

 feathers have strutted half the jackdaws in the book- 

 making world. 



