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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16607, 3 December 1919, Page 4

AN AWFUL PENALTY. “I have come hero,” said the angry man to the superintendent of tho streetcar lino, ‘‘to get justice; justice, sir. Yesterday, as my wife was getting oil' one of your cars tho conductor stopped on her dross and tore a yard of frilling off the skirt.” The superintendent remained cool. ‘‘Well, sir,” he said, “I don’t know that wo are to blame for that. What do you expect us to do P Get her a new dress?” “No sir, I do not intend to let you off so ’easilv as that,” the other man replied gruffly. Ho brandished in his right hand a small piece of silk. “What I propose to have you do,” ho said, “is to match this silk.”