Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
Robert Smith Surtees
Play
Length 20 h 15 min
Chapters 70
First published 1852
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
Chapters
1
Preface Read by Kevin Green 1:12
2
Chapter 2 - Mr Benjamin Buckram Read by Kevin Green 13:27
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Chapter 3 - Peter Leather Read by Kevin Green 20:19
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Chapter 4 - Laverick Wells Read by Kevin Green 9:41
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Chapter 5 - Mr. Waffles Read by Kevin Green 19:30
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Chapter 6 - Laverick Wells Read by Kevin Green 11:25
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Chapter 7 - Our Hero Arrives at Laverick Wells Read by Kevin Green 15:37
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Chapter 8 - Old Tom Towler Read by Kevin Green 10:15
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Chapter 9 - The Meet, The Find and The Finish Read by Kevin Green 39:35
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Chapter 10 - The Feeler Read by Kevin Green 9:56
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Chapter 11 - The Deal, and the Disaster Read by Kevin Green 10:50
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Chapter 12 - An Old Friend Read by Kevin Green 20:58
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Chapter 13 - A New Scheme Read by Kevin Green 15:34
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Chapter 14 - Jawleyford Court Read by Kevin Green 11:54
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Chapter 15 - The Jawleyford Establishment Read by Kevin Green 15:25
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Chapter 16 - The Dinner Read by Kevin Green 11:19
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Chapter 17 - The Tea Read by Kevin Green 5:51
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Chapter 18 - The Evening's Reflections Read by Kevin Green 8:56
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Chapter 19 - The Wet Day Read by Kevin Green 24:08
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Chapter 20 - The F.H.H. Read by Kevin Green 19:16
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Chapter 21 - A Country Dinner Party Read by Kevin Green 27:49
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Chapter 22 - The F.H.H. Again Read by Kevin Green 21:45
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Chapter 23 - The Great Run Read by Kevin Green 29:44
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Chapter 24 - Lord Scamperdale at Home Read by Kevin Green 23:01
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Chapter 25 - Mr Spraggon's Embassy to Jawleyford Court Read by Kevin Green 53:11
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Chapter 26 - Mr and Mrs Springwheat Read by Kevin Green 24:31
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Chapter 27 - The Finest Run that Ever was Seen Read by Kevin Green 15:07
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Chapter 28 - The Faithful Groom Read by Kevin Green 13:16
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Chapter 29 - The Cross-Roads at Dallington Burn Read by Kevin Green 18:04
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Chapter 30 - Bolting the Badger Read by Kevin Green 14:40
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Chapter 31 - Mr Puffington; or The Young Man About Town Read by Kevin Green 15:33
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Chapter 32 - The Man of P-R-O-R-PERTY Read by Kevin Green 12:30
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Chapter 33 - A Swell Huntsman Read by Kevin Green 16:49
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Chapter 34 - The Beaufort Justice Read by Kevin Green 12:56
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Chapter 35 - Lord Scamperdale at Jawleyford Court Read by Kevin Green 18:40
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Chapter 36 - Mr Bragg's Kennel Management Read by Kevin Green 9:06
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Chapter 37 - Mr Puffington's Domestic Arrangements Read by Kevin Green 15:06
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Chapter 38 - A Day with Puffington's Hounds Read by Kevin Green 20:13
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Chapter 39 - Writing a Run Read by Kevin Green 32:00
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Chapter 40 - A Literary Bloomer Read by Kevin Green 10:13
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Chapter 41 - A Dinner and a Deal Read by Kevin Green 28:56
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Chapter 42 - The Morning's Reflections Read by Kevin Green 16:22
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Chapter 43 - Another Sick Host Read by Kevin Green 13:06
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Chapter 44 - Wanted - A Rich God-Papa! Read by Kevin Green 16:31
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Chapter 45 - The Discomfited Diplomatist Read by Kevin Green 24:42
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Chapter 46 - Puddingpote Bower, The Seat of Jogglebury Crowdey Esq. Read by Kevin Green 21:43
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Chapter 47 - A Family Breakfast on a Hunting Morning Read by Kevin Green 22:34
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Chapter 48 - Hunting the Hounds Read by Kevin Green 13:01
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Chapter 49 - Country Quarters Read by Kevin Green 10:05
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Chapter 50 - Sir Harry Scattercash's Hounds Read by Kevin Green 28:01
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Chapter 51 - Farmer Peastraw's Dine-Matinee Read by Kevin Green 28:48
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Chapter 52 - A Moonlight Ride Read by Kevin Green 5:39
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Chapter 53 - Puddingpote Bower Read by Kevin Green 14:00
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Chapter 54 - Family Jars Read by Kevin Green 12:32
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Chapter 55 - The Trigger Read by Kevin Green 17:28
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Chapter 56 - Nonsuch House Again Read by Kevin Green 28:05
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Chapter 57 - The Debate Read by Kevin Green 6:43
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Chapter 58 - Facey Romford Read by Kevin Green 17:09
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Chapter 59 - The Adjourned Debate Read by Kevin Green 6:28
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Chapter 60 - Facey Romford at Home Read by Kevin Green 20:32
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Chapter 61 - Nonsuch House Again Read by Kevin Green 8:37
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Chapter 62 - A Family Breakfast Read by Kevin Green 6:52
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Chapter 63 - The Rising Generation Read by Kevin Green 19:34
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Chapter 64 - The Kennel and the Stud Read by Kevin Green 14:41
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Chapter 65 - The Hunt Read by Kevin Green 35:57
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Chapter 66 - Mr Sponge at Home Read by Kevin Green 4:49
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Chapter 67 - How they Got Up the 'Grand Aristocratic Steeple-Chase' Read by Kevin Green 15:03
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Chapter 68 - How the 'Grand Aristocratic' Came Off Read by Kevin Green 30:14
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Chapter 69 - How Other Things Came Off Read by Kevin Green 6:29
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Chapter 70 - How Lord Scamperdale and Co. Came Off Read by Kevin Green 8:20
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