COULDN'T EAT THEM.
"Have you anything to say for yourself?*, asked the magistrate. "Well, your grace—lT mean, your lordship—l 'ope you won't be 'ard on a poor cove," replied the prisonej at the bar. "I hadniit that I stole the leg of mutton, but times is werry bad, and I'v9 got a wife and seven children, your graced, ship—l mean your honour—and it's difficult to perwide for them. Hon the day I, tooK the mutton hoff the 'ook they 'ad nothin* to eat. They were starvin'." "\But Hi constable states that you keep three dogs, ,, said the magistrate. "How cart yon b# starving when you can keep three dogs? , * "Gh, well, guv'ttor," said the prisoner, snd-f deiily changing his manner, "if you exped as we're going to heat dogs, I've got a<l more to say. Wot's the sentence? Cooglii( up, cocky, and let's get it over."- —'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 38, 13 February 1904, Page 4 (Supplement)
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146COULDN'T EAT THEM. Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 38, 13 February 1904, Page 4 (Supplement)
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