SUBLIME IMPUDENCE.

NZ Truth, Issue 71, 27 October 1906, Page 4

SUBLIME IMPUDENCE.

Wending his weary way the ether evening, beery, ragged and tanned Alfred Jacobs, an old man, well on the left-nand side of 50, pulled up, short-/ befpre a house m G-rey-streev. A thought had. struck him,-, and to think was to act. He wanted a bed, and as beds/ m some G-rey-street , houses are plentiful, being stuck abput m all sorts of out-of-the-way, corners (whaffor we don't "know). Alfred thought he might' go* further and fare wprsp. So "lie. waltzed into the front of this house i iind not wishing tb disturb anyone went quietly to bed. ffe.Twas iVooT' asleep and dreaming sweetly, when . suddenly "there came a burst of .thunder sound, Alfred, oh, where was he ?" To be exact he was on the floor, .whither he had been violently thrown by the rightful owner <of the bed. Mr Jacobs finished his night's repose m the cold, cold cell, . and when called upon for an. explanation next day he said he had no money and ' nowhere to lay his head, so he just took what was offering, on the principal, no doubt, that beggars can't be choosers. His sleeping accommodation has been provided by the, taxpayers for a few nights, while inquiries are made about the old gentleman's history.