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Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1803* edition. Excerpt: ...I waited for F. Smallman''s coming up to me to give me another hack. Smallman then lived with me (he is a relation of mine). I told Smallman that Mr. Lake had refused betting twenty guineas for me upon Escape, and that I durst not go over to ride till I had given some person orders to bet for me, for I had pledged myself to his Royal Highness to back Escape; and His Royal Highness, after the race is over, is very likely to give me joy of my winnings, or say he is sorry for my losing, whichever happens, and asking how much I c won or lost; then for me to say I had no bet, why why His Royal Highness will not know what those things can mean, where that I first before 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 cc 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 His His Royal Highness intended to back his horse, and that I begged of him not to make the least offer of a bet about Escape till he was...
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