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from his life home, invests in " good 

 things," which turn out to be bad ones 

 immediately after the numbers have been 

 "run up." 



A feeling against gambling evidently 

 pervades all classes, so much so that a 

 law has been passed prohibiting the ex- 

 istence of betting houses in England, and 

 against the poorer classes congregating in 

 thoroughfares for the purpose of laying 

 and giving odds; and would the public 

 fi^enerally recoo^nise the fact that o-am- Gambling 



^ -^ ^ ^ acts most 



bling not only injuriously affected those I'^l^'peTma-*'' 

 dabbling in its meshes, but also the horse, and improve- 



ment of 



the innocent cause of so much disaster, British-bred! 



horses. 



the rattle of the dice-box would perhaps, 

 to a certain extent cease, to the benefit of 

 man, and the permanent welfare and im- 

 provement of the British breeds of horses. 



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