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other crack turns-out of the Twickenham Club, has 

 its one modern Recorder ; and it required no 

 little hardihood on our own parts to determine not to 

 sever The Turf and The Chase. 



We would never have intermeddled with the latter, 

 if the most subtle of tempters had not suddenly- 

 appeared in the form of Dick Christian. It was 

 nothing but the bewitching conversation of that 

 ancient fossil of a man, which made us disregard all 

 red-tape precedents, and dash at the subject " for 

 better for worse," and trust to luck and labour to pull 

 us through. 



If a gig-coalition had not been proposed, Dick's 

 like of extreme Leicester usefulness, spent in " ketch- 

 ing 'em tip, and making 'em go,'' with those lank, 

 weird-like fingers, would have been infallibly a sealed 

 book to hunting generations to come ; and hence if 

 the " Scarlet" chapter to which it gave birth, is not 

 strictly orthodox, we must suffer as unwilling martyrs 

 to literature together. 



THE ENTD. 



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