ALONE IN THE WORLD.
His name was recorded as Jonathan Smith But it might have been Jonathan Brown, He was raising a row with a grocery man j When the police premenaded him down. “ What have you got to say for your\ self?” asked the court.
“Isay I’m all alone in the world, with no one to be kind to me,” was the reply. “ There’s no legal point in that, sir, and even if you are all alone you have no business to upset an honest gro? cer.”
“ Judge, I’m sorry. I wandered | around all day yesterday without a red in my pocket, or food in my stomach. .*1 When night came, and I got to. think- i ihg how I was all alone, and how 1 was nothing but an old loafer, I got desper- , ate. I asked that grocer to give me an apple, and he told me to go to Kan? sas.”
“ You are too big and too old to play the orphan,” replied the court. “No man is a loafer who cares to he anything J . else. No man goes without food who - desires to earn it. You will go up in the balcon for sixty days.”
“ Then Fll commit! suicide.” “ Then the coroner will make two dollars.” “ Then I don’t care ?” “ Nor I either 1” The anxious public will receive due notice when the funeral ceremonies occur.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 339, 11 January 1881, Page 2
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232ALONE IN THE WORLD. Temuka Leader, Issue 339, 11 January 1881, Page 2
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