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 to run, for I had found my mentioning these 

 things made the training-grooms and others speak 

 very disrespectfully of me ; and I likewise saw 

 they were to be believed before me, which tired 

 me to mention any thing about a horse's condi- 

 tion, but at times when I believed it to be very 

 necessary. 



Some argue that Chifney's business is riding, 

 and that he can have no business to say any thing 

 about the training-groom in his horses' condition. 

 Now if my master ask me any questions about his 

 horses, or that I see a likelihood of my master 

 losing his money, either from the training-groom 

 being a dolt or a rascal in his bringing the horse 

 to the post to run, am I to be that undutiful 

 wretch not to tell my master ? and if I do, I must 

 offend a dolt and a rascal, and his colleagues of 

 sharpers^ and be abused by them, and saddled 

 with falsehoods. But I am not that tardy, 

 worthless, cowardly knave to be thus withheld 

 from my master. 



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