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rest his head ; but like all other socalled religionists he maaages to get on all right so far as money and tucker are concerned, : and he doesn't have to sleep m a hencoop. The other wowser, Mead, belongs to the Waikato, which "Truth" never suspected of producing "Christians." However, that by the way. The police decided to take Morgan to the booby hatch, and they were rushed repeatedly by individuals who wanted to pitch him m the river. And they, would have done so, too, had they got half a slant. However, if Bird and Brooks hadn't saved the itinerant bible- thumper he wwild have gone into the brook, right enough, and would have got his pants moistened. Eventually Morgan was safely got into the police station, but a huge crowd gathered 'outside and clamored with a great clamor for the blustifetous Mormon. Of course, Morgan says that the "Christians" ain't Mormons, that they are only obeying the biblical injunction to go, out and preach the gospel ; that they don't know anything much about Mormonism, and that /they had AS MANY WOMEN AS THEY WANTED, or something like that. HoweTer, the noisy crowd kept up a great hulljabaloo and a detachment of peelers (had to shoo them away. Later mi i Morgan was ordered to go home to roost. On the following night thei » was a similar disturbance m Cathedral Square. The "boys" wanted "fun.," and they got itl Their irira. of that commodity is for :i rv»"-'i to go for a minor mob, religiosis: venters who have no friends pref^nH. As on evening side-show the "C!'i >stiiins" bent the Salvarmv hollow. ,

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NZ Truth, Issue 139, 15 February 1908, Page 5

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Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 NZ Truth, Issue 139, 15 February 1908, Page 5

Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 NZ Truth, Issue 139, 15 February 1908, Page 5

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