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 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 loss, 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 sum; then squeezes you by the hand, and wishes you better luck another time, and so bids you farewell for the present.

Cock-fighting, 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 expressions made use of, the most horrid and blasphemous oaths and curses denounced against Fortune for the loss of their unlawful expectations.