Miscellany.
YE JUVENILE OFFENDER.
By a Puzzled Magistrate. Fortune, impartial to each dog, Gives a brief day of splendour; Like favor she hath not denied The juvenile offender. Perchance by some more vulgar name You've known this new pretender, Ere, by promotion, he became A juvenile offender. In face and figure immature, Of the superior gender, An interesting juvenile's Our juvenile offender. His age might puzzle you and me, For though he's small and slender, He's always mighty wide awake, Our juvenile offender. The law he breaks like any lad" Who no account need render ; t,_ His sins are adult, though he is i A juvenile offender. i The wise men of tho land confer, .-.-Advice they aslr and tender ; They cry, How shall wo punish him, Our juvenile offender ? By fine? He is a juvenile, And not a money-spender. Imprisonment? It might ofL'end The juvenile offender. The birch ? 'Tis clearly not tho thing For one so young and tender; It might degrade, or oven pain, Our juvenile offender. While these wise men confabulate, Reflection doth engender The thought, How fine a thing to be A juvenile offender. — Scottish Journal of Juriaprudence.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 524, 22 July 1881, Page 3
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192Miscellany. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 524, 22 July 1881, Page 3
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