CONFLICTING THEORIES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 48, 28 November 1891, Page 644

CONFLICTING THEORIES.

OXCE upon a midnight dreary A detective formed a theory That a man was being murdered in the street a block below ; He could hear him loudly calling As the wicked blows were falling, And his keen detective instinct told him all he wished to know. By the sound his ear detected That the blows must be directed By a man with blonde complexion with a blue and gentle eye, And with legs a little bandied, Either right or else left-handed, And between four feet six inches ami six feet four inches high. So he calmly sat and waited Till the noise hail all abated, Then he strolled at leisure down the street, the corpse to note. Then he met with Mrs Leary Who herself had formed a theory, For she saw the fight between O’Dooley"s dog and Grady's goat.