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his right hand in his breeches-pocket, and falling 

 against the kerbstone on a frosty night, laid himself 

 up for nearly the whole winter. Tom Sebright and 

 Tom Ranee, as the senior foxhound huntsman and 

 whip of England, also claimed a portrait ; and that of 

 poor Will Goodall is taken from a photograph, which 

 his widow kindly allowed me to copy. Mr. Osbal- 

 deston's well-known figure will be recognised in the 

 sketch from the pencil of Mr. Ambrose Isted ; and 

 the Turf has its representative in Jem Robinson and 

 Dick Stockdale, the latter one of the most devoted 

 lovers of horses, and best-known characters in the 

 whole of the East Riding. His brother Yorkshiremen 

 would indeed be amazed, if they went to an agri- 

 cultural or a foal show, and did not see Dick 

 leading something into the ring, and making it stand 

 well up. 



Unlike The Post a7id tJie Paddock, which was mainly 

 a reprint from the Sporting Magazine to begin with, 

 and gradually swelled into a " Hunting Edition," the 

 present work is, with the exception of eight or nine 

 •pages (which I have adopted on the principle of " the 

 man who eloped with his own wife"), entirely original. 

 If it is ever fated to reach a second issue, it will 



