A BAD, BAD MAN.
When Bijali unlocked the door of his cell and told him to come out and be tried according to law, he replied that he would be teetotally, infernally, and unanimously busted if he would stir an inch. Threats were of no avail, and promises only provoked smiles of derision. Therefore, Bijah entered the cell and fastened to him and brought him out in a heap, and ifc was this racket which made the hair of every person in the court-room stand up. Bijah is an old man and the ague ha 3 shaken him about and the rheumatiz banged him around, but when he gets hold of a prisoner the man has got to come out o' that unless he's spiked down with forty pennies. "William O'Dell, you have given the police a deal of trouble in the last twentyfour hours," observed tho court as the prisoner shook his head and gritted his teeth.
" But they troubled me first, they did !" " But yon were troubling someone else." " Haven't I a right to drink a glass of whiskey if I feel like it?" demanded William. " And then, if a man comes along and calls me a liar, haven't I a right to pop him over ? And then, if one of the infernal police comes along and wants to colier me, am I going along wid him like a blessed lamb ? Humph! I'm a man, sir, and I know my rights, and moan to defend them!" " William !" "Yes, sir." "You are a rough, uncivil, ugly man, and the only roason you are out of prison is because you struck the city only three days ago. lam going to send you up." "" I'll never he taken there !" "You'll not only be taken there, but there you will remain for sixty days." "I'll never leave this room alive!" shouted the prisoner as he grasped the iron railing. " If, at the end of two minutes you do not change your mind, I will send you for six months, and I will see that you are taken there if it is in the dead wagon." " His Honour spoke in a low, even voice, and the prisoner must have felt that he meant just what he said. He hung to his grip about thirty seconds, became uneasy, and then let go and walked away.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2996, 1 February 1881, Page 4
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