text:  Their chief companions or rather their most intimate friends are the fellows who hang about livery stables betting-rooms race-courses and hippodromes; crop-eared grooms _chaunters_ dog-stealers starveling jockeys blacklegs foreign counts breeders feeders; these are all "d--d honest fellows " and the "best fellows in the world " although they get their living by cheating the fast fellows who patronize them