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faulty ones in the other, possibly the former 

 might "kick the beam," but if a pound weight 

 would make them balance, do not let it be said 

 it would require a ton to effect the purpose. 

 But such is the kind of justice apt to be 

 awarded where a prejudiced class are the weighers, 

 and to no one is this prejudice carried further 

 than in the case of sporting characters. 



I must here mention a character that I did 

 not mention in my category of persons to be 

 noticed. I omitted him there considering his 

 vocation as gone, at least publicly so. I mean 

 the betting-list keeper. That I may not be 

 thoaght to uphold either betting houses or 

 the keepers of them, I am quite willing to 

 admit that it may be, and, in fact, is on the 

 broad scale beneficial to the public that they 

 are stopped. I say this not from the received 

 idea that anything unfair was practised in them, 

 or that they were as I have heard them called, 

 "a trap for the unwary." Nothing could possibly 



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