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NZ Truth, Issue 183, 19 December 1908, Page 7

A well-known and. eloquent Dunedin lawyer pleaded m court the olh£r uay, on behalf 'of a Chow charged with having opium m his po- session, that his client had just come down from Oaniaru and had a had foot ! That's a good idea. Wh n this scribe is next charged with bigamy or breaking i n f o the Tower of London, ho will say : "If you i»Lase, yer Waship, I've just come down from Three Kings, and I've got me.iSn.si, n.uinps, and housemaids knee, so, of course, you sue, it '■ couldn'l be me." Tal; ing about pleading, an old dame confessed, m the same Court, recently, to| a queer sort of a crime. She was charged with allowing a milker to graze on a public thoroughfare. "It you please, sir," said the old lady, with a slvh, "I plead fitnlly to the cow |". And she never saw, even when (-he Court hiughed, that she had made a fine "bull." , '