AN APPRECIATION 309 



well experienced In such " tricks of the trade" 

 as showing sugars on " witey-brown paper." 

 Surtees, probably more than any other 

 writer, had the trick of Interesting his reader 

 in an anything but fauldess hero. We all 

 love Jorrocks, though we should probably be 

 rather aghast to see him In our own houses. 

 Sponge, rogue as he Is, he wins our 

 sympathies at last none the less, for 

 throwing all his fortune-hunting schemes to 

 the winds to marry the portionless girl of his 

 choice. Romford again, whose manners and 

 appearance would have been quite against 

 his obtaining a groom's place In any decent 

 household, gains our affections by his bold 

 horsemanship and thorough sporting char- 

 acter, as evinced by his treatment of Mrs. 

 Watklns bagman, and we only wish we 

 might have been by his side the day he 



