Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 1 (of 3) / Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles from Contemporary Newspapers, With Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes, and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring, Forming a Complete History of the Ring from Fig and Broughton, 1719-40, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863

by Henry Downes Miles

Then think of Jack Randall, the prime ‘Nonpareil!’”

The “Laureate” of Bell’s Life, too, the facetious poetic illustrator of the Gallery of Comicalities, who so much extended the popularity of the ablest of sporting journals, penned a “warning” under the title of

“JACK RANDALL’S GHOST.

“‘I can call spirits from the vasty deep.‘

“When all in midnight gloom was lost,

All silent in the street,

In stalked Jack Randall’s slender ghost,

And stood at Fogo’s feet.

“Pale, wan, and wasted, was his frame,

So muscular of yore,