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 spring ; to which he said, " Yes." I told 

 Mr. W. Lake that he would not have matched 

 him had he come in time to have seen him run, 

 and I was afraid his running would never come to 

 him again. Mr. Lake appeared displeased, and 

 again repeated that if the Prince did not like to 

 stand the match, he would stand every guinea of 

 it himself. To which I replied, that if he made a 

 good match, the Prince stood it, and if he made a 

 had match the Pi'ince did not want him to stand it. 



On the following day, the 24th of August 

 1791, Creeper ran against Walnut, and the in- 

 stant I had stripped Creeper for saddling, I 

 believed him poisoned for the race, for his car- 

 case was svvelled in so extraordinary a manner, 

 that I never saw a horse so before, and I knew 

 him to have been in fine order only the morning 

 before. 



Nothing could be now done for His Royal 

 Highness, and I thought it better for me to lose 

 all my money than to have any complaint made 

 to His Royal Highness, that I made the horses 



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