SOUND ADVICE.
A man brought before the magistrates on a cbsrge of theft, had no one to defend him, so the judge requested a smart young lawyer to take him into the ante-room and give him,the best advice he could. Five minutes later, the lawyer, to the surprise of the judge, reappeared in court alone. '•'Where's the prisoner ?" queried the magistrate. « "You told me to give him the best advice I could, your worship, and—" "Of course I did. Well ?" "Well, I did so ; and the culprit is gone." A father was chiding his son foi staying out late at night. "When I was your age," he said, "my father would not allow me to go out of the house after dark." "Then you had a deuce of a lather, you had," sneered the young profligate. Very rashly vociferated the father : "I had a confounded sight better father than you have, you impudent young monkey." Absent-minded ' i Professor (triumphantly,)— See ! my love. I haven't forgotten to bring back my umbrella to-day. His Practical Half—But it's here ! You forjrot to take it !
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 640, 4 February 1914, Page 7
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181SOUND ADVICE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 640, 4 February 1914, Page 7
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