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the remedy, and all would be fair, but the 

 wording of the advertisement is such as to be 

 disgraceful to any man pretending to be, or being, 

 of the medical profession. Yet these men live 

 in fine houses and are permitted to go on 

 with their deception and no one interferes to 

 contradict their representations, and they carry 

 on there far greater deceptions than any betting 

 list keeper ever practised with impunity. 



Enough has been said, I trust, to shew that 

 deceit, imposition, and fraud are permitted, nay, 

 sanctioned in some cases, but are severely pun- 

 ished in others, and the boasted liberty of the 

 subject is held sacred in some instances, but 

 avails little in others. But proceed we with 

 our category. 



THE STEEPLE CHASER, 



Or rather Steeple Racer. For it begun with 

 something like a chase across country, where 

 provided a man reached a given point first, no 

 matter how he got there, he won. The winning 



