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ran for it. Mr. Trelawney did not, as a rule, bet ; but on 

 this occasion, at the instigation of his trainer, he backed 

 the horse at long odds for several hundreds, yet the sum 

 did not reach four figures. The result will serve as an 

 illustration of what the officiousness of friends may do 

 for us. Having backed him at long odds, and the horse 

 becoming favourite, my father now advised him, as a 

 matter of prudence, to lay short odds against him to the 

 amount he had backed him for. Mr. Trelawney's answer 

 was : 



' When you have the opportunity and can, do it for 

 me.' 



This commission was soon effected, and the price and 

 amount sent to Mr. Trelawney, but not the. name of the 

 bookmaker an omission which my father, for his own 

 sake, should not have made. It was then that the 

 candid friend came on the scene, whose interference 

 might in the end have been harmful, as we shall learn, 

 to the interests he intended to protect. Sir William 

 Cawl said to Mr. Trelawney that the names should have 

 been given in with the bets ; in consequence they were 

 asked for, and immediately sent. One bet, 2,000 to 

 1,000, had been booked to Mr. Josiah Anderson, the 

 well-known singer and comedian, who was then of good 

 standing on the turf. In fact, the name was looked upon 

 by Mr. Trelawney and Sir William Cawl as all right ; 

 and so the matter ended, until the Monday following, 

 when Mr. Anderson did not meet his creditors at ' the 

 Corner,' and was declared a defaulter, Mr. Trelawney 

 losing his 1,000. Now, had it not been for the advice 

 and interference of Sir William Cawl, in unnecessarily 

 requiring names, having already a good one, Mr. Tre- 

 lawney, strictly speaking, would have been entitled to 

 claim the money from my father. This is an illustration 



