Tom 'Jones was recently brought before a judge at the assizes, charged with chicken stealing. The judge listened carefully to the evidence, and was much perplexed. “I can’t understand, ’< he said, “how it was that you managed to steal those chickens, when they were roosting right under the owner’s window with two fierce dogs on guard in the yard. How did you manage it ?”
“It wouldn’t do me a bit of good to explain how I caught those chickens, your hqnour. You couldn't do it yourself if you tried forty times. The best thing you can do when you want any chickens is to buy them in the market the same as other people, and if you want to commit any rascality do it on the bench where you’re at home.” The court smiled, but the prosqner did not when he heard the sentence.
A gunboat was entering the mouth of the estuary when she passed clcy»e to a small collier. The officer in command hailed the latter. “Ahoy there ! WJiat have you got the black flag flying for?” The reply came back : “You'd hotter not let the captain hear you. That’s his best shirt hangin* out to dry-”- _
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 42, 22 June 1908, Page 8
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