INTRODUCTION 



The present reprint of Christopher in his 

 Sporting Jacket which originally appeared in 

 Blackwood for September, 1828, there inter- 

 rupting the monthly sequence of the better 

 known Noctes Ambrosiance, and which was 

 later included in Christopher North's Recrea- 

 tions in 1842, is the first that has ever been 

 made in separate and appropriate form of this 

 delightful chronicle of sporting life and ex- 

 quisite idyl of natural boyhood. It has been 

 reserved for an American publisher to rescue 

 its three "fyttes" from the oblivion that has 

 overtaken so much of the work of one of the 



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