APPENDICES 283 



APPENDIX I. 



Newmakket, Thursday, Oct. 1765. 



My dear George, — I had your letter yesterday, and 

 you would have heard from me sooner had I any good 

 news to send you. Sir J. Lowther has won above seven 

 thousand. Maxwell will bring you an account of our bad 

 success with Scapeflood, It cost me much less than I 

 expected, but more than I can afford, for I am at this 

 time, as you know, exceeding poor. 



I am sorry to hear you are still throwing out^ as well 

 as me. I fear, if luck does not come soon, it will only find 



us at five-pound stakes, and it must be a d d long run 



to bring us home at that rate'. Adieu ! my dear George ! 

 I will not think of desiring you to come here, because I 

 shall see you in London on Monday. I have one little 

 push to make on Saturday. Adieu ! — Yours, 



M. AND R. 



APPENDIX J. 



Sunday Morning, 1765. 



. . . When I came home last night, I found your letter 

 on my table. So you have lost a thousand pounds, which 

 you have done twenty times in your lifetime, and won it 

 again as often, and why should not the same thing happen 



' At hazard. 



