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(9) the next gentleman's hands to hold, whom they pretend they do not know (though he is at the ſame time their intimate colleague); if you win, the gentleman is not to be found if you loſe, then one of them meets you, with much concern in his countenance, and ſays he, by following your example, and laying on the wrong horſe, has loſt twice your ſam; then ſqueezes you by the hand, and wishes you better luck another time, and ſo bids you farewel for the preſent.

, of all games, is ſurely one of the moſt barbarous, and a ſcandal to thoſe who follow it, both high and low; for, notwithſtanding its antiquity, as a diverſion, in England, it is a great diſgrace to humanity; and ſurely none but the moſt notorious gamblers can be elated therewith, or give a ſanction to barbarity, that even ſhocks the wild Indian to hear of.—At theſe ſcenes of cruelty the greateſt depredations are committed by the attendants thereon; the moſt profane and wicked expreſions made uſe of, the moſt horrid and blaſphemous oaths and curſes denounced against Fortune for the loſs of their unlawful expectations.