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would not only do no harm but he would, as 

 a matter of necessity stop, for running to lose 

 without betting would be a losing game indeed, 

 and put money in other persons* pockets instead 

 of his own, but as betting must, or at all 

 events, will go on, the character we have in 

 hand is little better than he who plays with 

 loaded dice, that throw high or low as circum- 

 stances render it necessary they should do to 

 further the ends of the juggling gamester. 



However we may and with reason despise 

 the character, we must, in common charity admit 

 that many have become one of the clique from 

 having been victimised in their earlier career. If 

 the first projector of the system really merits 

 our execrations, the man led or forced into 

 it, we have but to despise and avoid : some 

 of these men are to a certain degree to be 

 pitied. There are doubtless many known rogues 

 on the town, who would cease to be such if 

 opportunity oiFered, and they possessed the ways 



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