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a little the worse for drink? Is it usual for an Adjutant 

 to be accompanied by a black boy, dignified with the 

 honourable appellation of Orderly, armed with a gin 

 bottle ? Is it the usual mode of drill to keep the whole 

 Company at the present until the Adjutant gets his glass 

 of grog? Is it the common pra6lice for Adjutants to 

 drink on a parade in front of the men — lamenting that a 

 gallon of porter-cup is so small a quantity that he cannot 

 invite the Company to partake? As all these things are 

 put in pra6lice sometimes, I should like to know if they 

 are common in the army. 



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" It is true that you sometimes have the misfortune to 

 find a man in a corps, who, from his superior abilities in 

 the performance of certain ditty offices — carrying every 

 species of scandal to his Commanding Officer, paying 

 court to his mistress if be has one, waiting on her with 

 respe6l, carrying her dog to church, scratching the poll 

 of her parrot — has forced his way from a halbert to a 

 commission, and became as insolent to his superiors as 

 he was before the cringing sycophant. I have known 

 one of these fellows, the first time he dined at a mess, 

 damn the waiters and the dinner, and swear he never 

 eat such a bad one before ; he should have omitted the 

 word bad and then he was right." 



The stilted magniloquent; composition of the old-time 

 schoolmaster is well-shewn by the following: — 

 C. Martin Dunbar 

 Offers his most grateful thanks to the Parents of those 

 children placed under his tuition, for the promised en- 

 couragement held out by the continuance of their confi- 

 dence, notwithstanding the establishment of a system so 



