A TENDER HEARTED BURGLAR.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 30, 26 July 1890, Page 20

A TENDER HEARTED BURGLAR.

EIRST Tramp.—‘Look, Tom—this is the parson’s house. The window’s open, an’all the folks are at church, an’ they don’t keep no dorg, so that we couldn’t have a softer snap !’ Second tramp (with suppressed emotion): ‘The parson’s house, do you say ? Ah, Bill, I have been a bold bad man, but I have never yet robbed the clergy ! They are a hardworkin’ lot, an’ their pay is small; besides some of the tenderest recollections of an innercent boyhood is coupled with my Sunday-school’—wipes away a tear. ‘ But, Bill, you haven’t got the same feelink in the matter I has ; an’, if ye’ve made up your mind to enter the place, why, I’ll stay outside an’ keep watch, an’ I’ll give a whistle if I see any one cornin’.’