RORTY RYAN.

NZ Truth, Issue 139, 15 February 1908, Page 7

RORTY RYAN.

: — ' ■ ■» ■ ; . ■ ; Tells ja Tale of Tanglefoot. Alfred Ryan is a Wellington person who igoes ma-d when- he imbibes a beer. Quite recently he took several quenchers and proceeded to play thelooney m an' objectionable manner. "He accosted a lady m the street, and Avhen the fair one ignored him he embraced her and. otherwise demonstrated his pat tialityV That woman had been tp the physical culture school, however, and she hooked Ryan a pretty, one on the point. It. was then that the bibulous person 'remarked, •''This is my. blanky corner, you blankety blank." TJie obscenity was duly reported, and the corner proprietor woke xip m the booby hatch. "I haven't drunk anything for two years," he observed next morning tp Magistrate Riddell, "and when I get drunk I go, mad. It's due to concussion at Dunedin." "You should not drink," rejoined the S.M. "I knocked 1 off for two years,''- asseverated the docked dillie. "KNOCK IT OFF. FOR EVER," replied his Worship, who commented: that not a single week passed without someone coming before him, charged\with- obscene language. . Fined' 20a pr seven days' for being drunk, and £5 or fourteen days' for slanguage. : "Truth," which , is partially .of Irish extraction, daily views with pained tintereist the number of Hibernian names that figure On the Police Court list for "■d'eunk and disorder-, ly." The Milesian person, seems to be mostly policemen or the. bobby's victim. Intense cogitation on " the subject has . convinced this paper uiat Pat and Mick are not more liable to' beer than George and Sandy and Owen, but whereas the- Englishman goes stolidly hpme under his "load," the Scotchman exhibits his native caution when disguised m whisky, and the Welshman is absent by his scarcity, : Joe Ward's countryman trails his coat' with the utmost enthusiasm and comes out of the scrap covered with bloodshed and glory... ,