Tables Turned.
Not long ago there was an amusing little incident at a provincial police vourt. It was a case of game trespass, aijd the defendant stoutly maintained his innocence. The gamekeeper, he <said, had mistaken his man, as he (defendant) was not in the neighbourhood on the day in question. On tho other hand, the gamekeeper swore that he saw defendant kneeling over a rabbit-hole, down which he had despatched a ferret. "Defendant ran away," continued . the gamekeeper, "and as 1 knew him well I didn't trouble to follow him. I merely waited far tho ferret to come out of the hole, when I took charge of it." Recognising, perhaps, that the «nagistrates *had already made up their aaindfi, defendant here interrupted : "Yes, gent« ; I 'one yo'll mind he stole my ferret !"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2801, 20 November 1907, Page 91
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133Tables Turned. Otago Witness, Issue 2801, 20 November 1907, Page 91
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