The cold-tack codgers are hard put to it to find arguments to bolster up their lop-sided logic. At the Grey statue t'other day one cove was illustrating how der-rink terrible derrink, brought men to Mount Eden. One man told him there that he was not drunk himself but another was who gave him "lip." He couldn't stand it, so slipped m and stoushed t'other chap, and was run m for assaulfc and sent up. "Don't think much o' that 'ere tale." observed one beer-chev/pr stnndinp 1 hr ;' "mi/rut n.s well rrvl (j'-'.mk ve^lf- if that's what iconics er behm- sober."
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NZ Truth, Issue 59, 4 August 1906, Page 5
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