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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 12, 22 July 1898, Page 10

In the kingdom of Poland there was formerly a law that a person convicted of slander must walk on all fours through tho strstta of the town, accompanied by the beadle, as a sign that he was disgraced. At the next public festival the delinquent had to crawl on hands and knees under the banquet table and bark like a dog. Each guest was at liberty to give him as many kicks as he chose, and he who had been slandered was obliged at the end of the banquet to throw a picked bone at the culprit, who. picking it up in his mouth, would, leave the room on all fours. Mr. P. Lundon, Phoenix Oanbers, Wanganui, is still busy putting people on the soiL He has also hotils in town and country For Fale and To Lease, Write to bin?.— "* *