WANTED, A HORSEWHIP.
A woman recently complained to the Tottenham (North London) Magistrate that her husband had— Done no work for two years. “ Slept all the winter away.'’ Ripped the clothes up in the hot weather. Christened himself the second laziest man in Tottenham. He would not work, she said, and ho " kicked up a big rowif his breakfast was not inker, up to him in bed. His children kept him. and he declared he would never work again. ‘‘Where is ho now? - ’ asked the Magistrate. “Asleep at home, and he says that neither police nor magistrates will move him," replied the wife, who added : “He says it is too hot now to get np, and in the winter hs says it is too cold.’’ (Laughter.) The Magistrate advised the “woman to leave her husband if he failed to keep her, and said: “Yon and the children should unite, and throw him out of bed.” H i i- in .j
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Evening Star, Issue 14636, 4 August 1911, Page 5
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