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engaged in the race that any mischief was done, 

 for in that case compensation was sure to be 

 made, but it was by the arrival of horsemen 

 and footmen from all the surrounding country, 

 who came to witness the sport, that havoc was 

 made. The fox-hunter, independent of his own 

 feelings against the thing, was unwilling to 

 encourage what he knew to be unpleasing to 

 the farmer on whose good will so much of his 

 own pursuit depended. So steeple-chasing had 

 few friends. 



Under the auspices of such men as the 

 Marquis of Waterford, Lord Howth, Mr. Osbald- 

 eston. Captain Ross, and other known sportsmen, 

 it got a-head, as Jonathan has it. Steeple-chase 

 courses were selected at recognised places. Still 

 as yet it was the pursuit of gentlemen. By 

 degrees other sporting characters crept in ; among 

 the first to do so I think I may mention 

 the Messrs. Anderson, Elmore, and others. 

 Up to this point, and some time after, the 



