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any class who did not, from some cause or 

 other, feel inclined to have a little venture 

 on a favourite animal. But this was far 

 away from that deep-set, ardent and de- 

 moniacal spirit of gaming I for the first 

 time was introduced to by Monops. At 

 the time I did not give it much con- 

 sideration ; only wondering how one of his 

 grade could find his way among men who 

 appeared to belong to a very different class. 

 On my return to town, I found he 

 had, by undeniable assurance, obtained 

 employment, having been put on a new 

 Birmingham day-coach, started in opposi- 

 tion. I was very much annoyed at his 

 being preferred to me, and more, by the 

 proprietors telling me that he was more 

 fitted for it than I was ; they not giving me 

 even a distant prospect of success. I re- 

 sorted in a pet to the scene of my former 

 success, where I soon exhausted what I had 

 left of my ill-gotten gains. 



