HIS REASON WHY.
There are drunkards and dwrnEards, and there are doctors and doctors; and drunkenness is not always tragedy. Sometimes ifc is a cornedy — tragi-comedy, perhaps, but still with a 'lighter side. One would hardly pub down on the "list" the easy-going Irishman who, after promising the magistrate to take the pledge, appeared agaia before the same Court.
" You promised to sign- the pledge whea you were here before," the magistrate reminded: him, and Pat replied: — • "And sure I did, your Honor; and for six weeks I was as sober as a water-works director. But what can a poor, fellow do, your Honor, when a wife's birthday and- a Bank Holiday come both of them on th« same day?"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7701, 9 May 1903, Page 3
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120HIS REASON WHY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7701, 9 May 1903, Page 3
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