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the shop," describes himself as "Chasseur," 

 but ultimately signs the proccs-verbal of his 

 abortive duel as "John Jorrocks, Grocer 

 (and Colonel in the Army when I'm in 

 France)," will not be soon forgotten by those 

 who have read it. The descriptions of sport 

 with fox and stag in Surrey, again, are quite 

 first-rate ; but the accounts of the Cockney 

 humours of Margate are really only interesting 

 to the students of life in the early Victorian 

 days. To some editions of this work a life 

 of the author has been affixed, but it is a very 

 jejune one, possibly for the reason that little 

 or nothing was really known of the man — as 

 distinguished from the writer. One fact of 

 some importance, however, it does contain, 

 and that is a statement that he never revealed 

 the original from which he drew the portrait 

 of the inimitable sporting grocer — indeed 



