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it down if you please, though in doing so you 

 would .lose its beneficial effects in other particu- 

 lars, but it would do no such thing. Grey- 

 hounds, rowing, sailing yachts, or pedestrians 

 would then be brought out, and thousands 

 would be betted on Lord Such-a-one's or Mr. 

 Some-body's dog Hero, as they were on his horse 

 Voltigeur, or any other horse; or Lord Yar- 

 borough's clipper yacht would cause thousands 

 to be betted for or against her, as much as 

 the same amount is now betted on a race 

 horse. Nothing can do away with betting ; 

 deprive it of one accessory some other would 

 spring up and raise its hydra head in spite of 

 all you can do. Let men, therefore, take their 

 own way ; let them, for let them you must, 

 pursue their fair betting there as they like. So 

 long as they fairly adventure their own money 

 against that of another man's it is only the 

 money changing hands after all. 



There is one redeeming clause in favour of 



