TO GOOD A MEMORY.
It was tha old story of a right-of-way case, and the witness in favour of keeping the path across the fields open to the public was an old man ini his eighty-sixth year who declared that the path in question had been used by everyone since he was a boy of five. "Do you mean to tell me,’’ asked the lawyer, getting annoyed, "that you remember what occurred when you were only five years old ?" "Certainly I can, sir," was the emphatic answer, "I minds the time a year before that when your old feyther, sir—owld Skinflint Garge, us called him " "That’ll do," put in the lawyer ; "you may stand down " "Got a wallopin' from old Mother Gunn " "Stand down, sir," roared the solicitor, "or ” "For cheatin’ ’er two-vear-old lass," went on the witness imperturbably. "Get down from the witness-box," cried the frenzied lawyer, "or I’ll " "A-cheatin’ her two-year-old lass out o’ a farden out o’ the cflange from a four; cany bit, I say," concluded the old man triumphantly, as. he slowly left the box amidst the
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 38, 7 May 1907, Page 5
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182TO GOOD A MEMORY. Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 38, 7 May 1907, Page 5
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