A MOST POWERFUL DRINKER.
Did you ever hear of Sir Andrew Wallace seizing a man that was drunk and putting him up at auction? I must tell you this story. Squire Wallace was a captain in the militia; and one day, after the training was over, and just before men were dismissed from parade, he took a guard with him, and made a prisoner of Pat Sweeny, who was a most powerful drinker—drank as much as a camel almost. " Pat," says he, "I seize you in the King's name." "Me," says Pat, scatching his head and looking abroad bewildered like: " I'm not a smuggler! Touch me if you dare!" "I seize you," says he, " for a violation of excise law, for carrying about you more than a gallon of rum without a permit, and to-morrow I shall sell you to the highest bidder. You are a forfeited article, and I could knock you on the head and let it out if I liked; so no nonsense,, man." And he sent him off to gaol screaming and screeching like mad, he was so frightened. The next day Pat was put up for auction, and knocked down to his wife, who bid fcr him 40s. It's generally considered the greatest rise ever taken out of a man in this country.
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 283, 8 May 1875, Page 3
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218A MOST POWERFUL DRINKER. Globe, Volume III, Issue 283, 8 May 1875, Page 3
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