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fented to let him ride, my mare was to lofe^ 

 and he was to be rewarded." 



However trifling or fuperfluous a recital of 

 thefe circumftances may appear to the well- 

 informed and long-experienced fportfman, 

 they are no lefs neceffary with the juvenile 

 adventurer, to eftabliili the exiftence of fadis, 

 and expofe the various means of almoft in- 

 exphcable duplicity, inventmt, and impofition, 

 by which the opulennt, liberal, and 

 INCONSIDERATE are fo frequently reduced 

 to a ftate of repentant dcflrudlion. Their 

 introdufl:ion will confcquently feive to render 

 incontrovertible the proof of fuch practices ^ 

 and to demon ftrate the folly and danger of 

 encountering fo great a complication of de- 

 liberate villainy and fyftematic depredation, 

 where there muft ever remain fo confufed a 

 profped: of extrication, with either success 

 or EMOLUMENT. Under the influence of 

 fuch refledions as muft naturally arifc from 

 a knowledge of, and retrofpedive allulion 

 to, fuch incredible adts of villainy in conftant 

 pradlice, every reader will be enabled to 

 decide, whether it can pofiibly tend to the 

 promotion of his pleasure, interest, 



or 



