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how to make his hits and mind his pockets; when Boxiana? 

 Fistiana, with Owen Swift and other worthies, display their 

 portraits and their practice for the honor of the Ring and 

 the public edification. At a season, in short, when almost 

 every pastime, however trivial, puts in a claim for a sepa- 

 rate establishment, "and has that claim allowed," it does 

 appear rather extraordinary that one of the most popular 

 and prominent should so long have been neglected. 



Not acting solely upon this idea, but guided rather by the 

 opinion of many practical men, and encouraged, they must 

 say, by the ready and characteristic assent given by the 

 Noble and thorough Sportsman whose name they have the 

 honor to prefix to the Work, the Publishers determined 

 on [the present undertaking ; in carrying out which it has 

 been their aim to preserve every feature of interest in a 

 somewhat condensed and not expensive form. From going 

 so far back — and it would have been impossible to have 

 extended the Boundary line without breaking up everything 

 like a connected chronology — it can scarcely be expected 

 that this Summary should be found altogether without fault 

 or flaw, or so complete in places as might perhaps by some 

 be desired. 



In addition, however, to the many Holloas back and 

 forward, which have lifted the Compiler from scent to view 



