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 '^ why His Royal Highness will not know what 

 *' those things can mean, where that I first be- 

 ^' fore a race advise His Highness to bet, and say 

 *' I shall back the horse, then the horse gets 

 " beat, and I tell His Royal Highness I had no bet 

 " upon him." I complained to Smallman that 

 when I told one to bet for me, he generally made 

 it known to the betting-ring that he was betting 

 for me, which might change the betting so as to 

 make His Royal Highness have some hundreds 

 the worst of his bets, and all from my having 

 betted twenty guineas. 



But I durst not go over without ordering some 

 person to bet for me ; " and as chief of my bets 

 ** this summer has been with Mr. Vauxhall Clark, 

 ^' I will not change him for this once." I thought 

 the field knew that Mr, Clark sometimes betted 

 for me ; that seeing him bet on Escape, the odds 

 were likely to change the sooner ; so I desired him 

 to go to Mr. Clark, and tell him to lose twenty 

 guineas for me upon Escape ; and assure him that 



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