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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1669, 6 May 1874, Page 3

AN.ACCOMMODATING BAILLIE. "Tor being drunk and disorderly, you are fined ten shillings," said a Glasgow magistrate to a prisorier at the bar. "Ten shillings!" exclaimed the cul-1 prit. " Baitlie, you're surely no in earnest. What's to come o' my wife and weans ?—they maun starve or beg. "Weef;'weel, I'll make it seven and sixpence,' and not a farthing less," said the baillie', so far yielding to the appeal. " Oh, baiUie, just think what seven and sixpence 1 iS:'t&' La puir man in thae hard times. ' 'An' there's no a grain o" meal in in &c hoose^nbr as muckle coal as would mak afire inhere was," once more urged the drouthy. one ' '« r Make it'£.ye shillings, then, said the gOQd.-natured,judge; "and though ye were.the'king^nthe throne, I woulcma let you off cheaper." Weel, bailing" said the cunning scounsubmit;" and as lie said this, he added in an' audible;undertone. '^Blessed is he that considered the f poor." This softened.still more the heart ot the baiUie,' 'and' he said, 'fWeel, then, half,-a-crown, and done wit." At which low figure the culprit felt afraid to.press for further reduction, and accepted the decision., \