268 SPORTING ISRAELITE. 



choose this spot, and others like it, that 

 they may the more readily relieve them, 

 it is not necessary here to inquire; let it 

 suffice to know that they formed not the 

 least flourishing part of the community. 



Among the most conspicuous of this 

 otherwise interesting race, was one who, 

 away from his other pursuits, would pass 

 himself off for a sporting character, and 

 would often intrude himself into the so- 

 ciety of those who indulged in similar 

 amusements. However odd it may ap- 

 pear for a Jew to be a lover of the 

 turf, where the chances of accumulation 

 are not so positive and certain as his 

 ventures mostly are, still we have lived 

 in a time when we have seen one of 

 the same race sharing in and promoting 

 to the greatest extent this national amuse- 

 ment.* He was a man of pleasing ex- 

 terior, and of tolerably good address; his 

 speech quite free from that accent that 



* The Baron Rothschild. 



