ELLEN'S END.

NZ Truth, Issue 174, 17 October 1908, Page 6

ELLEN'S END.

" Fetch me Carriage !"

Ellen Parkinson is an ancient Christchurch battler of reproachful character, who was recently gaoled for the same old night offence. There is no rest for the wicked, and when she emerged from Uleary's crib on Saturday the joy of sundry fiecrs drove her into the arms of a peeler, who closed the door of the booby hatch upon her shameless white hairs, idllen's face is something like a shrivelled pumpkin bruised m a thunderstorm, and when she covered it with a picture hat resplendent with the color of. assorted flowers, the effect was strange m the extreme. She pleaded guilty to the drunk charge m the rich brogue 7 of the ould sod, but explained that she had only come out of pig on Saturday, and the interval was insufficient to have a really satisfactory razzle. But the J.'sP. sent Ellen up for another term of two months, with hard labor, after wrestling with the provisions of the Police Offences Act. "Ketch me carriage !" exclaimed Ellen, peremptory »lj\ as the Black Maria drove vp i&