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win, it would be a wonder that would very soon 

 cease. 



Trotters have, in many persons' hands, been made 

 the source of making a good deal of money — some- 

 times fairly, by their superior capabilities, much 

 oftener by very unfair practices. I have had a great 

 many very fast ones in harness, but rarely availed 

 myself of their speed in the wager way; I must, 

 however, mention an occurrence in which I did, and 

 to good (yet I trust justifiable) account. I heard of 

 a mare who had twice done her seventeen miles in 

 the hour iu harness ; I resolved to treat m.yself to 

 her, if I liked her looks, for my gig. I had no idea, 

 when I bought her, but of a little harmless gratifica- 

 tion of giving others the ''go by," if I chanced to 

 come alongside any one I found fancying he had a 

 goer. In the neighbourhood lived a surgeon, who 

 piqued himself on possessing fast ones ; and, as ordi- 

 nary horses, fast they were. He was boasting in a 

 coffee-room of what his horses could do, and that he 

 met none that could touch them. I knew their 

 capabilities well enough, and that, though fast, they 



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