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...sportsman in the house would be found voting on his side. Like battue-shooting, the steeple-chase ¡sa bastard sport, an attempt to graft foreign customs on good English pastimes; both are only fit for the emasculated creatures, who have not sense or stamina enough to endure a day's...

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...true sportsman in the house would be found voting on his side. Like battue-shooting, the steeple-chase is a bastard sport, an attempt to graft foreign customs on good English pastimes; both are only fit for the emasculated creatures, who have not sense or stamina enough to endure a day's...