"CHEST LIKE A RABBIT."
* STTTD XI'.LLKIi'H DEFENCE. ' Robert Byrne -('28), a young mail, was charged at the Central Court, Sydney, with carrying on the business of a hawker without, being in possession of a license authorising him to do so. "It's not tha't I begrudge the 5s for the license," he 'aid. "but I had not made it up to the time the constable! spoke to me. I had only iurit started working." 'iWorking?-*' queried Mr Barnett, S.M.. "do you call tint working?" "Well," continued Byrne in a monotone, "I can't do hard work; I'm sft l.Oin hi fill; and I've get. a chest on me Like a rabbit." (Laughter.) " a'.ltleii his Worsh'n, "t/hat you gave the narr.p of Davis," "1 <1 u •!>•- do that wh'en I'm summoned," declared the man with the rabb'tlike chest. "I don't want them to know at home." "You are fined 10s." .said Mr Barnett, concluding the dialogue.
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Mataura Ensign, 3 July 1914, Page 5
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