"A BIG FLOW OF LANGUAGE."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1650, 6 January 1914, Page 5

"A BIG FLOW OF LANGUAGE."

ORATION FROM THE DOCK. "He has a big flow of language, your Worship," remarked a polico sergeant in giving evidence in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday against an old man charged with being idle and disorderly. It was soon evident that the. polico officer was not far wrong in hi 3 statement, for when the old man was asked if he had any questions to put he poured in a torrential flow of queries, which were, punctuated by violent gesticulations. "Is it true?" he reiterated a<*ain and again with dramatic waves of tlie arm; "Is it true that I have no visible means of support? All I asked for was a m&tcli from a man to light my pipe (here his voice roso higher and higher, and ho emphasised his statement by thumping , tho dock in front of him), and I would ask tbo Governor or his Worship for the same thing. It is done every day. You want to make a criminal out of me, and for 31 years I have been a respectable resident of this Dominion. Do you know," ho continued, confidentially putting his baud up to bis mouth, as if to keep such a eocrct inriolate from the rest of the court, "do you know therfc is n man at tho top of tuc Post Offico that I can borrow pounds from?" Perhaps it was bis rugged eloquence thnt bad an effect, but nt all events bo walked from tlio dock without a conviction registered against Win.