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Star (Christchurch), Issue 660, 5 July 1870, Page 2

' Some time ago a man was charged inthe Glasgow Police Court, with stealing a herring ; barrel from a person in Stockwell-street; = After the charge had beeq proved, the accuser ' thus addressed the magistrate :— "Deed, Sir Bailie, the man at the bar is a great rogue ; ! the stealing o' the barrel is naething to some . o' his tricks. He stole -my Mgn-brpd last-; week, and what does your honpit think' he did ■ wit? 11l tell ye. He brought it into my am shop, wi' my am name on't and offered ' to sell me'fc as he thought, it would be 6' mair : use to me than onybody else." A fellow who bad been paying his devoirs at the shrine of Bacchus, and like,Falstaff had foresworn thin potations, stood At the corner of the street, endeavouring to sustain himself by the, assistance of a post. It was rather a difficult piece of business, for he waa first upon one side of it, then upon the other. In this emergency, a boon companion on the opposite side of the street, called to him to cross. " Come across 1 " replied the fellow, with a hiccup, missing his hold on the post, und tumbling at length, "you must be a smart man to suppose I can come across, when I am too druuk to stay where I am."j)i •