DODGING WORK.

NZ Truth, Issue 119, 28 September 1907, Page 6

DODGING WORK.

Corley the Cadger.

*A? lively^-looking cuss is 'Edward jCorley, a begging brute of Christpliurch. He anight be able to get away from work by running, but he is too slow to trap spiders. He 'dodges round the corners of Toil m expert fashion, and knows what particular corner to doge round. Nurse .Maude, the pudding-faced woman with jfthe back headgear, and the self-as-isurance of an ignorant politician, cursed with the bump of continuity, Miad something to say. about Codey's iibegging propensities, and when the [police took action he made a few itremarks thereanent, and said that he '•had been looking for work with, a (motor-car power look, and that he jiwas unsuccessful m his search, and ?ithat he was married, and that anything he had received m the >way of jCharity was 'quite voluntarily offered. ?And accepted, of course. You bet. >But it appears to have been quite a •month ago since the sooner went to /Mayor Payling for a (job. He had itoeen sent to that dignitary by. a ?3ady, who thought he could oblige 'Mm with a job of a thousand a jfyear, or something. But Payling has fhis own people to look after when frjobs are going, and sent 'him on to I someone else, who

' DIDN'T POSSESS fig VACANCY So Corley has been out on prthe rocks, although his wife obtainsed a bit of work now and again. j.The loafing dog, who had been cadglang all over the shop, so it is alleged, put a Salvarmv female cadger —a better one then himself, pcr r Jiaps — m the box, and she swore ithat he had been looking for work jand couldn't find it within the large jarea of Christchurch. Well, Magistrate 'Day told the waster that he ■must go and find it somehow, or else ifoe would go over the hill. There /.are far iboo many of this class of i curse m IChristchurch who are either by charitably inclined people, \ov their parents, and who only do odd jobs now and again, and who »ughl; to be vagged and taught their jjlain duty m life. sThey are about tthe streets all the day, and cadge /ibeer, matches, tobacco, fe and something for the Sunday dinner. Wonder ■.rthey don't beg a gold watch and , chain, or a new suit of clobber, or .■tickets fer the theatre, , 0r, ., art jejes 'of .that sort. •{',:'.