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To this plan there is a dired: alternative, 

 if there ihould be no chance (from his being 

 fufficiently a favourite) of laying on money 

 in this way ; they then take the longeft odds 

 they can obtain that he wins, and regulate or 

 vary their betting by the event of each heat ; 

 winning if they can, or lojtng to a certainty, 

 as beft fuits the bets they have laid ; which 

 is accurately known by a pecuniary confuha- 

 tion between the heats. From another de- 

 gree of undifcoverable duplicity their greater 

 emoluments arile ; for inftance, letting a 

 horfe of capital qualifications win and lose 

 almoft alternately at different places, as may 

 be moft applicable to the betting for the day; 

 dependent entirely upon the ftate of public 

 opinion, but to be ultimately decided by the 

 latent villainy of the parties more immedi- 

 ^ately concerned. 



Theie, like other matters of magnitude, 

 are not to be rendered infallible without 

 the neceffary agents ; that, like the fmaller 

 wheels of a curious piece of mechanifm, 

 contribute their portion of power to give 

 acSion to the whole. So true is the ancient 

 .aaage^ ** birds of a feather flock together,'* 



that 



