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therefore infer that both from gratitude, and still 

 more in the prospect of turning such man to 

 account on another occasion, he would be at least 

 safe. No such thing, for "dog will eat dog," 

 in racing affairs. His former confederates hold 

 the turning him to account, as they did 

 before when he shared in the booty, but in 

 a different way, so they make all sure by sacri- 

 ficing him to their own interest in some event 

 where a specious plan is concerted, by which 

 he conceives he is to benefit, but which he finds 

 going the reverse way to that which he antici- 

 pated, but they, from the first, intended; he, in 

 turn, is "cleaned out." Can it be a matter of 

 surprise if, smarting under loss and mortification, 

 such man throws honour to the winds, and makes 

 up his mind to pillage friend or foe, if he gets a 

 chance. Thus, as I before said, the character he 

 becomes ought to come in for a share of our pity. 

 He is made a rogue by the rascality of others, many 

 of whom, perhaps, have undergone the same ordeal. 



