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Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

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Number of Chapters: 71

Length: 20 hours and 15 minutes

Language: English

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

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Preface (Kevin Green)
Chapter 1 - Our Hero (Kevin Green)
Chapter 2 - Mr Benjamin Buckram (Kevin Green)
Chapter 3 - Peter Leather (Kevin Green)
Chapter 4 - Laverick Wells (Kevin Green)
Chapter 5 - Mr. Waffles (Kevin Green)
Chapter 6 - Laverick Wells (Kevin Green)
Chapter 7 - Our Hero Arrives at Laverick Wells (Kevin Green)
Chapter 8 - Old Tom Towler (Kevin Green)
Chapter 9 - The Meet, The Find and The Finish (Kevin Green)
Chapter 10 - The Feeler (Kevin Green)
Chapter 11 - The Deal, and the Disaster (Kevin Green)
Chapter 12 - An Old Friend (Kevin Green)
Chapter 13 - A New Scheme (Kevin Green)
Chapter 14 - Jawleyford Court (Kevin Green)
Chapter 15 - The Jawleyford Establishment (Kevin Green)
Chapter 16 - The Dinner (Kevin Green)
Chapter 17 - The Tea (Kevin Green)
Chapter 18 - The Evening's Reflections (Kevin Green)
Chapter 19 - The Wet Day (Kevin Green)
Chapter 20 - The F.H.H. (Kevin Green)
Chapter 21 - A Country Dinner Party (Kevin Green)
Chapter 22 - The F.H.H. Again (Kevin Green)
Chapter 23 - The Great Run (Kevin Green)
Chapter 24 - Lord Scamperdale at Home (Kevin Green)
Chapter 25 - Mr Spraggon's Embassy to Jawleyford Court (Kevin Green)
Chapter 26 - Mr and Mrs Springwheat (Kevin Green)
Chapter 27 - The Finest Run that Ever was Seen (Kevin Green)
Chapter 28 - The Faithful Groom (Kevin Green)
Chapter 29 - The Cross-Roads at Dallington Burn (Kevin Green)
Chapter 30 - Bolting the Badger (Kevin Green)
Chapter 31 - Mr Puffington; or The Young Man About Town (Kevin Green)
Chapter 32 - The Man of P-R-O-R-PERTY (Kevin Green)
Chapter 33 - A Swell Huntsman (Kevin Green)
Chapter 34 - The Beaufort Justice (Kevin Green)
Chapter 35 - Lord Scamperdale at Jawleyford Court (Kevin Green)
Chapter 36 - Mr Bragg's Kennel Management (Kevin Green)
Chapter 37 - Mr Puffington's Domestic Arrangements (Kevin Green)
Chapter 38 - A Day with Puffington's Hounds (Kevin Green)
Chapter 39 - Writing a Run (Kevin Green)
Chapter 40 - A Literary Bloomer (Kevin Green)
Chapter 41 - A Dinner and a Deal (Kevin Green)
Chapter 42 - The Morning's Reflections (Kevin Green)
Chapter 43 - Another Sick Host (Kevin Green)
Chapter 44 - Wanted - A Rich God-Papa! (Kevin Green)
Chapter 45 - The Discomfited Diplomatist (Kevin Green)
Chapter 46 - Puddingpote Bower, The Seat of Jogglebury Crowdey Esq. (Kevin Green)
Chapter 47 - A Family Breakfast on a Hunting Morning (Kevin Green)
Chapter 48 - Hunting the Hounds (Kevin Green)
Chapter 49 - Country Quarters (Kevin Green)
Chapter 50 - Sir Harry Scattercash's Hounds (Kevin Green)
Chapter 51 - Farmer Peastraw's Dine-Matinee (Kevin Green)
Chapter 52 - A Moonlight Ride (Kevin Green)
Chapter 53 - Puddingpote Bower (Kevin Green)
Chapter 54 - Family Jars (Kevin Green)
Chapter 55 - The Trigger (Kevin Green)
Chapter 56 - Nonsuch House Again (Kevin Green)
Chapter 57 - The Debate (Kevin Green)
Chapter 58 - Facey Romford (Kevin Green)
Chapter 59 - The Adjourned Debate (Kevin Green)
Chapter 60 - Facey Romford at Home (Kevin Green)
Chapter 61 - Nonsuch House Again (Kevin Green)
Chapter 62 - A Family Breakfast (Kevin Green)
Chapter 63 - The Rising Generation (Kevin Green)
Chapter 64 - The Kennel and the Stud (Kevin Green)
Chapter 65 - The Hunt (Kevin Green)
Chapter 66 - Mr Sponge at Home (Kevin Green)
Chapter 67 - How they Got Up the 'Grand Aristocratic Steeple-Chase' (Kevin Green)
Chapter 68 - How the 'Grand Aristocratic' Came Off (Kevin Green)
Chapter 69 - How Other Things Came Off (Kevin Green)
Chapter 70 - How Lord Scamperdale and Co. Came Off (Kevin Green)
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