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opinion that such representation is a delusion 

 intended much more to entertain than com- 

 municate instruction. However, that the busi- 

 ness may be elucidated in such way as will 

 prove most appUcable to the nature of the 

 case and the patience of the reader, it will 

 be necessary to afford their pmctices such ex- 

 planation as may render the facility of execu- 

 tion more familiar to the imagination of 

 those, whose situations in life, or contracted 

 opportunities,may have prevented their being 

 at all informed upon the subject in agitation. 



That these acts of villany may be the 

 better understood, it becomes applicable to 

 observe, that it is the persevering practice 

 of THE FAMILY, to havc four, fivc, or six 

 known good runners in their possevSsion ; 

 though, for the convenience and greater cer- 

 tainty of public depredation, they pass as the 

 distinct property of different members : but 

 this is by no means the case, for they are 

 as much the joint stock of the parfi/, as is 

 the stock in trade of the first firm in the city. 



The speed and bottom of these horses are 

 as accurately known to each individual of the 

 brotherhood, and thev are in o'eneral (with 



