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COMING OF AGE.

When Sir C — T — , a weak young man, with a large fortune, came of age, the Greeks, thinking him an excellent quarry, went to York Races, made him drunk and plundered him of a large sum. The next morning one of the party waited upon him to acquaint him of his loss — (£20,000 or £30,000), and brought bonds for his signature to that amount!