Which he declined most definitely to do

Which he declined most definitely to do

Todd's usual remark waswhen the subject chanced to be broached and discussedthat Richardson's backers pressed him very much to "lay down," which he declined most definitely to do. But a week or two before his death, a far more disagreeable fact oozed out. He then acknowledged, to an intimate friend, mentioned hereafterwhom he rescued at the Gretna fightthat he received half the money, offered for the head prize, in 1816. This, of course, was paid through the agency of one of the principal promoters of the Carlisle ring, in a left-handed manner, with an understanding that it should never be made public!

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