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out an unexpected accident, which sometimes 

 happens) as well convinced before startingy 

 whether they can beat their competitors, as 

 if the race was absolutely determined. 



This^however, is only the necessary ground- 

 work of deception, upon which every part 

 of the superstructure is to be raised : as they 

 experimentally know how little money is to 

 be got by imnning^ they seldom permit that 

 to become an object of momentary conside- 

 ration ; and, being no slaves to the specious 

 delusions of honour, generally make their 

 market by the reverse, but more particularly 

 where they are the least expected to lose ; 

 that is, they succeed best in their general de- 

 predations by /asm^, where their horses are the 

 favourites, at high odds after a heat or two, 

 when expected to iciii to a certainty, wliich 

 they as prudently take care to prevent. 



This business, to ensure success and emo- 

 lument, is carried on by such a combination 

 of villany, such a sympathetic chain of hor- 

 rid machination, as it is much to be la- 

 mented could ever enter the minds of de- 

 generate men for thepurposes of destruction. 



