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Excerpt from Reminiscences of the Turf: With Anecdotes and Recollections of Its Principals Celebrities
Commissioners and their instructors - How Gully and Hill made fortunes - Laying against 'dead uns - Gulling the public Universal temptation - A view of turf parasites in 1832 Richardson, Bland, and others.
Harry Hill origin A thimble and a pea - Lord George's contempt - Exposed by Mr. Rayner - Disadvantages of lying - Hill's dress and diversions; loses - Frank Butler 'carpeted - Caught on the Stock Exchange An economic principle - Intestacy and disappearance of his money.
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