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offer of shelter from Mr. Fores was I indebted for keep- 

 ing a dry skin, and to the urbanity of the same gentle- 

 man was I further indebted for as great a treat as a 

 Sportsman could enjoy, always saving and excepting a 

 good run mth hounds. 



Finding I was a Sportsman I really believe every 

 print that it was conceived would be most interesting 

 to me was paraded for my gratification ; nor did the 

 politeness and good nature of the worthy publisher 

 end here, but was accompanied by a cordial invitation 

 to a similar treat whenever I felt disposed to enjoy 

 it. By all the votaries of hunting and sporting, said 

 I to myself, nothing but a Sportsman would make 

 such an offer. Inquiries followed: 1 found I had 

 made a "good cast," and had "hit off" my man. 

 What "a burst" we had together! Racing, hunting, 

 coaching, breeding, et hoc genus omne^ were discussed, 

 and then exemplified by the most finished represen- 

 tations pencil could form of every catastrophe by 

 "flood or field" incidental to such pursuits. In heart, 

 and to the very core, the spirited publisher is a 

 Sportsman — need I say I soon availed myself of the 

 permission given ? 



Let us first notice the portraitures of all the best 

 sires and mares, got up at an expense to the publishers 

 that would astonish those unversed in such matters, 

 and which nothing short of the estimation in which 

 they are held, and the enormous numbers sold, ever 

 could repay. These I do not look at as merely objects 

 to please the eye, but as stock portraitures of animals 

 that have been the wonder of their time, to be handed 

 down to posterity as a faithful representative history 

 of the turf. The few prints published formerly have 

 given a something to judge by of what an Eclipse, a 



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