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AN ENTERPRISING CLERK.

Lord Kenyon, in 1795, tried a clerk `for misapplying his master's confidence,' and the facts were as follows. He went with a bank note of £1000 to a gaming house in Osendon Street, where he won a little. He also won two hundred guineas

at another in Suffolk Street. He next accompanied some keepers of a third house to their tables, where he lost above nine hundred pounds. He played there almost every night; and finally lost about £2500!