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CHAPTER IX. 



In this volume I am describing the for and 

 against sporting characters. It would require a 

 second, nay, far more, if I were to enter into 

 minute description of their different pursuits and 

 the way they are carried out. Otherwise I 

 could show that, in using the term honour as 

 applied to the betting-list keeper, I am calling 

 in no absurd panegyric on the man, but simply 

 representing his general business to be based on 

 fairness. He does (or rather did) not make 

 the odds ; those odds on which the business 

 of his office was guided, were made by others. 

 It is true he might make the odds offered in 



his office what he pleased, but it was known 



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