Bijah Reproved.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1752, 25 September 1875, Page 6 (Supplement)

Bijah Reproved.

[From the Detroit Free Press.]

1 Bijah, were you brougbt up among beatbens ?' sharply inquired bis Honor.

_ he Court had cut a hole in a lemon and was slowly sucking the juice while the Clerk was getting the warrants ready. Bijah had been watching him for two or three minutes, licking his chops and wearing a hungry expression.

' I guess I was —I was born in .New Jersey !' replied the old janitor. 'J his being his Honor's native State, he laid the lemon on the desk, propped it from rolling off with his pen-holder, and remarked:

• Mr. Joy, you are getting old and sassy. It grieves me to see it, but I realize that it is so. You have got to turn over a new leaf or the silken cord of friendship which has so lo_?g united us shall be severed.'

' Is it any harm to see a feller suck a lemon ?' exclaimed Bijah.

' Mr. Joy, this world is full of harm. This very lemon, plump and fair as it appears to the eye, may cause my death within one hour. You may now open Court and call out the prisoners, and I hope the words I have spoken may make a deep impression on your heart. If you have ever a monument the funds will come from my wallet, and I shall not care to remember any thing but your good deeds and your big feet. Bring out the vicious and the unfortunate, and let the cotillion commence.'