A BAD LOT!
An elderly man of ultra-convivial habits, but withal learned and bookish, was haled before the bar of justice in a country town, “Ye’re charged with bein’ drunk and disorderly,” snapped the J.P. “Have ye anything to say why sentence should not be pronuounced?” "Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn,” began the prisoner in a flight of oratory. “I am not so debased as Poe, so profligate as Byron, so ungrateful as Keats, so intemperate as Burns, so timid as Tennyson, so vulgar as Shakespeare, so ” "That’ll do, that’ll do,” interrupted the J.P.. “Ninety days. And, constable, take down that list of names he mentioned and round ’em up. I think they’re as bad as he is.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3573, 4 March 1924, Page 8
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121A BAD LOT! Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3573, 4 March 1924, Page 8
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