TOO MUCH OAT.
" A bunch of lawyers were sleeping in a stuffy courtroom in a country town because of the overcrowded condition of the single hotel dnring a session of court,'.' said a lawyer, " when one of thorn, a practical joker, possessing a remarkable faculty of imitating a cat, concluded to have some fun out of it. After all of them liad quieted down to sleep lie started a plaintive moan like a- cat. Another fellow on the opposite side of the roora had a similar faculty uf imitation, and was awakened by the noise of the supposed cat, and remarked to his next fellow:— " ' Some darned cat has got into the room. Just Wait. I'll imitate a tabby and we'll catch the Tom.'" " So the two began meowing at each other. The first supposed it was a real cat, and the room being extremely dark they kept approaching each other, each with a boot in hand to demolish the supposed cat. They got together finally, and then there was an act not down on the programme. Each had aimed his boot well, and when a light was finally struck the two men were mixing it up badly in the centre of the room, and it took the rest of the lawyers and the town doctor to get them in presentable shape for court the following clay."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10104, 16 March 1911, Page 2
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227TOO MUCH OAT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 10104, 16 March 1911, Page 2
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