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men as Messrs. Hugo Meynell, Musters, Far- 

 quarson, and others of like standing and 

 characters as Sporting men ; we should not do 

 sufficient justice to them in so doing; while, on 

 the other hand, to call such men as the late 

 Crockford, Bond, and the never to be forgotten 

 or forgiven Palmer, Sportsmen, would be insult 

 to the names of those forming the beau ideal 

 of the character of the Sportsman. Of course 

 I speak generally, for I am acquainted with 

 men who though Sporting men and not Sports- 

 men, I have every reason to believe are 

 individually men of unimpeachable honour and 

 integrity. What I have said merely shews the 

 two characters to be different — difi'erent generally 

 in habits and pursuits, and certainly very often 

 in the estimation due to each. 



I will endeavour to specify the two distinct 

 characters under separate heads : viz. Legitimate 

 and True Sportsmen, and Sporting Characters. 

 In doing this I suppose each in a general way 



