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To this plan there is a direct alternative, 

 if there should be no chance (from his being 

 sufficiently a favourite) of laying on money 

 in this way ; they then take the longest odds 

 they can obtain that he wins, and regulate or 

 vary their betting by the event of each heat ; 

 -winning if they can, or losing to a certainty , 

 as best suits the bets they have laid ; which 

 is accurately known by a pecuniary consul- 

 tation between the heats. From another de- 

 gree of undiscoverable duplicity their greater 

 emoluments arise: for instance, letting a 

 horse of capital qualifications win and lose 

 almost alternately at different places, as may 

 be most applicable for the betting for the day; 

 dependent entirely upon the state of public 

 opinion, but to be ultimately decided by the 

 latent villany of the parties more imme- 

 diately concerned. 



These, like other matters of magnitude, 

 are not to be rendered infallible without 

 the necessary age-its ; that, Hke the smaller 

 wheels of a curious piece of mechanism, 

 contribute their portion of power to o;ive 

 action to the whole. So true is the ancient 

 adage, '' h\\\U ul' a featlier flock together/' 



