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to some of whom pages are devoted, while 

 others are sketched in with a few feHcitous 

 lines ? Surtees sometimes repeated himself 

 in incident,^ but never in a character. Each 

 one stands apart. Sponge is a hard-riding, 

 underbred, sporting rogue. Romford is a 

 hard-riding, underbred, sporting rogue. But 

 no two men could be more unlike than 

 Romford and Sponge. Willy Watkins is 

 a rich man, anxious to conceal his ante- 

 cedents, and trying to ape the country 

 gentleman. Marmaduke Muleygrubs is a 

 rich man, anxious to conceal his antecedents, 

 and trying to ape the country gentleman. 

 Yet no individuals could in other respects 



^ E.g.^ that of the man who asks a bystander at a meet, 

 " Have you seen my fellow ? " and receives the answer, " No, 

 I'm d — d if ever I did," which will be found in Hajtdley 

 Cross^ in Mr. Romforcfs Homids^ and, as far as I remember, 

 in Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. 



