HELPFUL ADVICE.
He was consulting the lawyer on ivhat was, to him, an important subject, [lis eyes were heavy from loss of sleep and temper, yet the wrath that consumed his soul made rest impossible. "It's this way," he said. VThe man who lives next door to me has a beast of a cat that spends the nijzht sitting on my fence and yowling. Neither my wife, the new baby, nor myself has had any sleep for weeks, and I am about fad up. The man next door refuses to get rid of the cat, and I want you to tell me what to do." The lawyer was young, and sat and looked about as wise as a suet-pudding, but said nothing. "I've got a right to shoot the cat, haven't I?" "I should not feel justified in advising such an extreme course. As I see it, the cat is not your property." '"Perhaps not; but the fence is!" "Aha! Then you have got him, for you can pull the fence down!"
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Waikato Independent, Volume XXI, Issue 2488, 29 December 1921, Page 6
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