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first event ; he then bets the odds on the 

 next, viz. (3 to 2)~2 = i| to i. B also bets 

 the odds on the third event, viz. (5 to 4)-r2 

 = 2^ to 2. Now A wins all three; there- 

 fore, B wins 2 + 1 + 2 = ^5, which pays what 

 he lost to A. The odds that A did not lose 

 these three events would be 41 to 4. 



We now dismiss this subject, with no 

 probability of our ever returning to it. Al- 

 though the perusal of Xenophon might have 

 made Scipio a hero, we have not the slightest 

 intention of manufacturing jockeys by any 

 effort of our pen ; and yet we wish we had 

 touched on these matters sooner. But why 

 so ? Is it that we would rather have been 

 Livy, to have written on the grandeur of 

 Rome, than Tacitus on its ill-fated decline ? 

 It may be so ; for we are loth to chronicle, 

 in any department, our country's dispraise \ 

 but we are not without the reflection, that 

 we might have done something towards 

 preventing the evils we have had to deplore, 

 by exposing the manner in which they have 

 accumulated and thriven. That there are 

 objections to racing, we do not deny, as, 

 indeed, there are to most of the sports which 

 have been invented for the amusement of 



