SHARP PRACTICE — NOT BY AN ATTORNEY.
The commanding officer of a Militia regiment having passed an
evening with several of his officers, carried one of them, who
was much intoxicated, to town with him. How the rest of the
night was passed was not known — at least to the young man; but in
the morning the colonel slipped into his hand a memorandum of his
having lost to him at play £700 — for which sum he was
actually arrested on the parade the same day, and was
compelled to grant an annuity to a nominee of the colonel
for £100 per annum!
