The definition of• a gentleman as a- man who keeps a gig has been made famous by Carlyle. ■• Beside it deserves to be set an effort of genius made recently in a county court. Thus: "What is the defendant?" "He's a gentleman." "How do you know he's a gentleman?" '■■ "Well, he came here and took a big house, and went away without paying his creditors.". , .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13497, 25 May 1907, Page 5 (Supplement)
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