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" me that you had no business to have won, and 

 " that there are others who wish to have you, 

 " and others who think you too good for me, as 

 '' they know you will, not see me robbed." His 

 Royal Highness then told me, he should be always 

 glad to see me, and for my own sake to let him 

 see me often ; and if he ever kept horses again, 

 that I should train and manage them. After this 

 I was ordered to attend His Royal Highness at 

 Sir John Lade's, in Piccadilly, which I did, and, 

 in the presence of Sir John Lade and Mr. F. C. 

 Phylips, His Royal Highness put his hand upon 

 his bosom and said, that he believed Sam Chifney 

 had been to him very honest, and wished me to 

 understand that the two hundred guineas a year 

 he gave me was for his life; saying, "^ I cannot 

 '' give it for your life, Sam Chifney, I can only 

 " give it for my own life." I answered His Royal 

 Highness, that I was the same satisfied. 



N. B. Till this I thought the salary had been 

 for my own life. 



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