The gentleman's stable directory; or, modern system of farriery ... Interspersed with ... remarks upon the dangerous ... practice of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer, and others. Vol. II / By William Taplin.
- William Taplin
- Date:
- 1805
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The gentleman's stable directory; or, modern system of farriery ... Interspersed with ... remarks upon the dangerous ... practice of Gibson, Bracken, Bartlet, Osmer, and others. Vol. II / By William Taplin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to, and many bets made in consequence, among our neighbouring friends ; but pre- vious to the day of running, having accepted an invitation to his house, he there most honourably offered to pay me the ffve-and- twenty guineas, before the race, if “ I would obligingly condescend to let him win” I have a firm and anxious hope, that every sportsman of integrity, whose feelings vibrate in unison with my own, and who reads this proposition with the indignation it is recited, will do me the justice to consider it more proper that he should conceive, than becom- ing in me to relate, the particulars of my behaviour upon such occasion. It must suf- fice to say, I( rode over the course without a companion ; and as the match was made play or pay, received the payment for my consolation. There are numerous and very powerful reasons why I forbear to make a single remark upon this business ; leaving it entirely, with its infinity of annual simili- tudes, to the different impressions it may make upon the principles of the different readers to whom it will become subject. This was only a single attack, conse- ] quently t](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22040614_0414.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
