NIL DESPERANDUM.
One of the Scotch judges, rather noted for his light treatment of punishments, had once sentenced a man, convicted of sheep-stealing, to be hanged on the 2Sth of the then current month. The prisoner, when being conducted out of the dock, turned round to the judge, who was busy arranging his papers previous to leaving the court, and cried out : "My lord, my lord, I haena got justice here the day I" The judge, looking up from his occupation with a twinkle of grim fun in his eye, consolingly answered, " Wee], weel, my man, yell get it on the 23th."
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Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 211, 8 September 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)
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102NIL DESPERANDUM. Evening Post, Volume XV, Issue 211, 8 September 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)
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