"GOT A SOFT JOB."
THE MAGISTRATE SMILED. A unlive debtor leaned lazily agams.fi i the sido (if the wi in the Oto- j ;ohan.!_'a Court on Houday last. Do you oivc this money? 1 ' asked 33tfi.. ; [2. Ilaw&on, S.M. Oil. ves: 1 owe te money all rigllt." •'Then why don't you pay it? I! '•'Oh,"' replied the Maori through his nterpreter, "I've no money. I'mi ; ifty years> of age: I'm tired of work."'' " linr,' 1 said his Worslnp, ** 1 aia 1 ifty years age also, and X am not ■irod of work." Hviutre's rejoinder was not audible n i-ho Boneh, hut it sot the interpreter nx\ gl ting. " What does the debtor say?" asked ilr R'arson. " Oh, but you've pot a soft job. voor Vorship.'' fho Aiagisi'valo bent lii* head and . s roviT'lcd 'to wriii vigoi*ou>lj"i. i
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11509, 4 October 1915, Page 5
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