mistaken Identity.
Recently at the Christchurch Resident Magistrate's Court, a small boy, whose duty it is to carry * copy' from the reporter to the newspaper office, happened while waiting, to stand rather forward ia the Court A case of some kind hating been called on and stated, ins Worship mistook him for the defendant, and putting his finest judicial look, addressed the boy/ thus :—-' Now, sir j you; have heard the charge, what have you got to say about it?' The boy finding, himself thus unexpectedly honored, said nothing, bnt blushed, as rosy as the light which the crimson curtains of the new canopy shed on their Worships themselves. When th« true .state of the case was understood he was.. dismissed with a, smile instead of the usual caution, the Bench thinking that the (printer's) devil is not always so bad AS.he is painted. ; ?
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 251, 25 September 1883, Page 2
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144mistaken Identity. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 251, 25 September 1883, Page 2
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