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(3.5) | 2 | Surtees' novel features his great comic creation, the cockney grocer and sportsman Jorrocks. A series of incidents in the life of Jorrocks, the novel is without plot--but includes chapters on hunts, rivals, heroes, cooking, and much more. |
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"I respect hunting in whatever shape it appears; it is a manly and a wholesome exercise, and seems by nature designed to be the amusement of the Briton." - BECKFORD.
Chapter I.  "Then round the room the circling Dowagers sweep,
Then in loose waltz their thin-clad daughters leap;
The first in lengthened line majestic swim,
The last display the free unfettered limb."
Chapter IV. "It is our opening day."
Chapter V. "A man he was to all the country dear."
Chapter VII. "Heard the winds roar, and the big torrent burst." - THOMSON.
Chapter XXII. "'Bout Lonnun, then, divent ye make sic a rout,
There's nowse there maw winkers to dazzle:
For a' the fine things ye are gobbin about,
We can marra in canny Newcassel." - PIGG'S POEMS.
Chapter XXIII.
[Several following chapters also have epigraphs] | |
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To the right honourable lord John Scott, one of the best of British sportsmen, this book is inscribed, by his obliged and faithful servant, the author. | |
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Mr. Jorrocks, having for many years maintained his popularity, it is hoped that, with the aid of the illustrations, he is now destined for longevity.
Preface (Oct. 1854). When Michael Hardey died, great was the difficulty in the Vale of Sheepwash to devise how the farmers' hunt was to be carried on.
Chapter I. The olden times. | |
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