SHE WAS UNDER TWENTY-ONE.
She was passably good-looking —her fullblown charms told of her having reached at least the age of 25—and as she stepped into the witness box at the Water Police Court, and looked scornfully at the nymph who, in a fit of jealous rivalry, had struck her, her attorney smiled, as who should whisper to his own heart, "We shall win." But his opponent, a wiry old practitioner, was too much for him.
" Your name is Mrs Snow, isn't it ? and you are over 30 ?" And the rival tittered a little. What woman could stand this P The witness couldn't.
"I am Miss Snow," she rejoined with some asperity, " and I'm under 21." " Minor, and can't plead, your worship," said the defendant's attorney; and the astonished witness was told by her attorney that she had thrown away tho case to gratify her vanity.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2987, 21 January 1881, Page 4
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