A CUNNING DRUNK!

Colonist, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7812, 13 December 1893, Page 4

A CUNNING DRUNK!

An up-country Queensland policeman, who, at the instance of his sergeant, lately married to qualify himself for the (coition of local lock-np keeper, wiites, iniin aggrieved < tone, to his district inspector. The narrative shows that from the time ha took possession of the look-up a bushman from a neighboring station needed to be ran in: for drunkenness every Saturday night regularly, and was as regularly fined five shillings every following Monday morning, after whioh he wen o to the station and worked till Baturday came round. In time the bashman came to be regarded as an established source of revenue, and as there rarely was anyone else in the lock-up a friendly sentiment grew np between him and the constable. But one Monday morning, when the constable had duly attested to the Saturday revel, and had collected bis two halfcrowns, the bushman, instead of going back to the station, took an opposite direotion, and has not since been beard of.i "The terrible part of the busiqflss," the constable's letter goes on, "is, that my wife has disappeared with him, and there's no one now to look after the lock-up if I happen to bring in a woman. I don't like to give up the lock-np, for it saves money, bat what- can I, do ? I have good reasott.iidw tor 'jadgitg that the baebmaa I speak of never was drunk at all." ■