A MUSCULAR PARSON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue IX, 3 March 1894, Page 198

A MUSCULAR PARSON.

A curious case was discussed in an English court recently. It involved a question whether intentional deception was practised in labelling a watch and chain as‘Gold Watch and Chain.’ A clergyman, passing the store in the window of which they were di-plaved, saw the sign : ‘Gold Watch and Chain, price, £1 Ils 6d ’ - Considering the bargain uncommonly cheap, he opened overtures for a purchase. Before, however, putting upon it the final clinch, he demanded a written guarantee that the quality of both watch and chain was exactly as represented. Thrust into an ugly position the dealer was forced to confess that the sign’s phraseology was deceptive ; the chain was not gold. The indignant clergyman made some strongly pertinent remarks. Angered at being entrapped and remonstrated with, the storekeeper threatened to eject his inquisitor. But he made a sad error in enraging the clerical customer, who, it appears, had passed the University with flying colours as a finished athlete. * Look here,’ said the old gymnast, * I don’t want to take advantage of you, but if you lay a finger on me I will “ trim ” you round the shop.’ Further the w<>uhi be .j-ct.or did not venture. A policeman was summoned and the dealer arrested. The magistrate fined him, after which he coursed his way home, a sadder and much wiser man.