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cerity, I will, if you will allow me, stand 

 every shilling you have on the race ; and I 

 know you have a very large sum depend- 

 ing. I will give him something which, by 

 to-morrow night, shall make his legs as fine 

 as they were yesterday." " You shall give 

 him nothing/' said I, " unless you tell me 

 what the medicine is composed of." " It 

 is the most simple and innocent of medi- 

 cines, sir : I will write it down for you, and 

 you shall go yourself to the apothecary's 

 and have it made up, and see it dven to 



^ ^ Receipt for the 



him yourself. It is this : one pound of phuJbSfs."''^" 



NITRE, AND HALF A POUND OF SULPHUR, 



(flower of brimstone,) MIXED UP into a 

 MASS WITH MOLASSES. " For Shark, I had 

 it made up with honey, being so valuable a 

 horse ; but I never have given it to any 

 other horse, except made up with molasses ; 

 and I look both on the honey and molasses, 

 as only vehicles to give the nitre and sul- 

 phur. Before one o'clock at noon, I gave 

 Shark a ball of it, as large as a good-sized 

 hen's egg ; at night, another ; the next 

 morning, another; and, in the evening, 



