THE RETORT COURTEOUS.

NZ Truth, Issue 243, 19 February 1910, Page 8

THE RETORT COURTEOUS.

When a jockey came up for sentence m Christchurch Supreme Court recently on a charge of stealing £25 from a fellow horseman, his lawyer made the remarkable statement that his client had been riding for fourteen years, and until the present time there was nothing against him. "Considering his occupation," said counsel, "this is a record." This astonishing remark reached the ears of a well-known Canterbury jockey, who has been riding for over twenty years? and is one of the best respected men m the province. "Well," he said, dryly, "I know a lawyer,, now m gaol, who had been m the lawyer business for ten years, but didn't get into trouble until he misappropriated the funds. Considering his occupation, this is an even greater record." The opinion held by some strangely-constituted people , that because a man is a jockey he must be a potential criminal is based upon the Calyinistic doctrine which teaches that because a woman is a theatrical artist she must be immoral.