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PrefaceKevin Green
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Chapter 1 - Our HeroKevin Green
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Chapter 2 - Mr Benjamin BuckramKevin Green
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Chapter 3 - Peter LeatherKevin Green
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Chapter 4 - Laverick WellsKevin Green
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Chapter 5 - Mr. WafflesKevin Green
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Chapter 6 - Laverick WellsKevin Green
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Chapter 7 - Our Hero Arrives at Laverick WellsKevin Green
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Chapter 8 - Old Tom TowlerKevin Green
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Chapter 9 - The Meet, The Find and The FinishKevin Green
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Chapter 10 - The FeelerKevin Green
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Chapter 11 - The Deal, and the DisasterKevin Green
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Chapter 12 - An Old FriendKevin Green
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Chapter 13 - A New SchemeKevin Green
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Chapter 14 - Jawleyford CourtKevin Green
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Chapter 15 - The Jawleyford EstablishmentKevin Green
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Chapter 16 - The DinnerKevin Green
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Chapter 17 - The TeaKevin Green
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Chapter 18 - The Evening's ReflectionsKevin Green
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Chapter 19 - The Wet DayKevin Green
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Chapter 20 - The F.H.H.Kevin Green
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Chapter 21 - A Country Dinner PartyKevin Green
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Chapter 22 - The F.H.H. AgainKevin Green
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Chapter 23 - The Great RunKevin Green
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Chapter 24 - Lord Scamperdale at HomeKevin Green
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Chapter 25 - Mr Spraggon's Embassy to Jawleyford CourtKevin Green
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Chapter 26 - Mr and Mrs SpringwheatKevin Green
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Chapter 27 - The Finest Run that Ever was SeenKevin Green
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Chapter 28 - The Faithful GroomKevin Green
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Chapter 29 - The Cross-Roads at Dallington BurnKevin Green
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Chapter 30 - Bolting the BadgerKevin Green
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Chapter 31 - Mr Puffington; or The Young Man About TownKevin Green
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Chapter 32 - The Man of P-R-O-R-PERTYKevin Green
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Chapter 33 - A Swell HuntsmanKevin Green
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Chapter 34 - The Beaufort JusticeKevin Green
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Chapter 35 - Lord Scamperdale at Jawleyford CourtKevin Green
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Chapter 36 - Mr Bragg's Kennel ManagementKevin Green
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Chapter 37 - Mr Puffington's Domestic ArrangementsKevin Green
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Chapter 38 - A Day with Puffington's HoundsKevin Green
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Chapter 39 - Writing a RunKevin Green
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Chapter 40 - A Literary BloomerKevin Green
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Chapter 41 - A Dinner and a DealKevin Green
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Chapter 42 - The Morning's ReflectionsKevin Green
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Chapter 43 - Another Sick HostKevin Green
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Chapter 44 - Wanted - A Rich God-Papa!Kevin Green
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Chapter 45 - The Discomfited DiplomatistKevin Green
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Chapter 46 - Puddingpote Bower, The Seat of Jogglebury Crowdey Esq.Kevin Green
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Chapter 47 - A Family Breakfast on a Hunting MorningKevin Green
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Chapter 48 - Hunting the HoundsKevin Green
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Chapter 49 - Country QuartersKevin Green
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Chapter 50 - Sir Harry Scattercash's HoundsKevin Green
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Chapter 51 - Farmer Peastraw's Dine-MatineeKevin Green
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Chapter 52 - A Moonlight RideKevin Green
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Chapter 53 - Puddingpote BowerKevin Green
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Chapter 54 - Family JarsKevin Green
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Chapter 55 - The TriggerKevin Green
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Chapter 56 - Nonsuch House AgainKevin Green
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Chapter 57 - The DebateKevin Green
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Chapter 58 - Facey RomfordKevin Green
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Chapter 59 - The Adjourned DebateKevin Green
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Chapter 60 - Facey Romford at HomeKevin Green
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Chapter 61 - Nonsuch House AgainKevin Green
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Chapter 62 - A Family BreakfastKevin Green
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Chapter 63 - The Rising GenerationKevin Green
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Chapter 64 - The Kennel and the StudKevin Green
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Chapter 65 - The HuntKevin Green
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Chapter 66 - Mr Sponge at HomeKevin Green
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Chapter 67 - How they Got Up the 'Grand Aristocratic Steeple-Chase'Kevin Green
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Chapter 68 - How the 'Grand Aristocratic' Came OffKevin Green
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Chapter 69 - How Other Things Came OffKevin Green
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Chapter 70 - How Lord Scamperdale and Co. Came OffKevin Green
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About this recording
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure in creating comic personalities and dialogue and resembles the later Pickwick Papers of Dickens, whose style may well have been influenced by Surtees. The story follows the eponymous Soapy Sponge, a Victorian freeloader and confidence trickster, who manages to work his way around the gentrified houses of southern England, fox-hunting as he goes. - Summary by Kevin Green
