THE CULPRIT

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1008, 1 July 1909, Page 22

THE CULPRIT

One winter evening in Manchester, when a water inspector was going his round, he stopped at one of the mains in a street to turn off the water owing to some repairs. He had just put the handle on the tap and began turning, whtn a hand was placed on his shoulders. Turning round, he was confronted by a tipsy gentleman, who said, in a drunken tone —“So I have found you at last, have I? It’s you that’s turning the street round, is it?”