COULDN’T COME.
Some entertaining stories are told of the tricks by which men summoned to attend as common jurymen attempt to avoid the duty cast upon them. One morning a little girl whoso eyes just appeared above the desk timidly exclaimed—- “ Please, sir, father can’t come ; he can’t put on bis boots.’ The official asked the nervous little creature what was the matter with her parent. She hesitated ; evidently she had not been instructed further than the statement she had made, aid, looking straight into the official’s twinkling eyes, she said “ Well, sir, father don’t wear hoots ; he’s got wooden legs. 1 wasn’t told to say anything else, sir, that’s all !”
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Western Star, Issue 2216, 24 June 1898, Page 6
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111COULDN’T COME. Western Star, Issue 2216, 24 June 1898, Page 6
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