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glass after glass, bottle after bottle, were called for and 
drunk until he also became drunk. He then brings 
all the money bags, lays th^m on the couch, and opens 
them up ; he then falls asleep amongst the rupees. He 
was lying on rupees, rupees were on the table, rupees were, 
on the floor : and this in the public room of a public hotel ! 
Of course the landlord felt very uncomfortable, and did 
not know what course to adopt. He stepped out 
into the street to go and call some one to advise 
with, and just then the head of an agency firm was pass- 
ing, The landlord asked him to come in, and give 
his opinion and advice on the matter : he went, 
he looked hard at the sleeping or drunken man, and 
harder at the rupees all scattered about the room. 
“Why,” whispers he, “ that is one of our superientend- 
iits. We remitted him a draft for £600 a few days ago, 
and there be is and there ’s the money ! Was he sober 
when he arrived? “Perfectly,” says the landlord. 
but as soon as he entered the room he commenced 
to drink, as I never saw any one do before it : as- 
tonished even me, who, as you may conceive, see a 
good deal of this sort of thing.” 
“ Go out and bring a police constable, or better 
still, two. Also some v/itnesses,” says the agent. This 
was soon done, the money was all collected and counted, 
and found to the exact sum, less Kandy bank commission, 
and coach hire, and was, of course, delivered over to 
its ric^htful owner, and the unconscious delinquent 
lodged ill prison. Vie wonder what he thought, or what 
ids feelings were, when he woke up. We cannot say 
what the result of this was, having no further re- 
cotlection on the subject. 
But this sort of bolting was so very rare, planned and 
plotted fraud and theft, that, although there may have 
been several other cases, we do not recollect them. One in 
more general use, we will say the second, was bolting under 
pressure of outward circumstances. These circumstances 
might or might not have been the result of foolish or in- 
judicious conduct, which the bolter bad personally 
brouaht domi on his own head, but whether or not it 
shewed small spirit or pluck, even want of principle, 
in the man, so lost to himself as to resort to this 
extremity. Probably, while in a place, be bad lived 
carelessly, and beyond ins small income, with 
every good intention to pay his bills at some period. 
He would have scouted the very idea of doing that. 
In fact such a course of proceeding, or contingency, 
never ended his mind. His pay^ being small, and his 
debts heavy, he lost his situ?iiion, and, as a matter 
of course, his creditors were all “ down upon him.” 
Excuses and delays were exhausted, his only hope and 
last resource was in the procuring of a situation, and 
