CAPITAL FOR BANKING.

A nobleman’s footman in Hampshire, to whom two years’ wages were due,

demanded the sum from his master, and gave notice that he would quit

his place. The master inquired the reason of the man’s precipitancy, who

told his lordship, “that he and a fellow-servant were about to set up a

_country bank_, and they wanted the wages for a _capital_!”

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