MAKING THE DEAF HEAR
» A.: Chinaman was brought before a magistrate in a New York court ami received a fine for a slight misdemeanour. Tlio jud?o had great 'difficulty in making the Oriental understand, for he pretended not to know a word 'of English. "Look here, man/' he said disgustedly, "that is a, dollar. Do you see? Pay itotherwise in gaol! Understand?" The Chinaman signified that lie did not understand, and the magistrato repeated it. "Let me talk with liirn, Your Honour," said the portly officer who had arrested the man. "I'll mako hfm, understand!" When the judge had given him leave tho officer approached the Chinaman and shouted in liis ear: "Sav, you, with tho teakettle face, can't you hear anything? You're got fo pay a two-dollar fine!" | "You some liar allee samee!" cricd the Chinaman, "ifs only one dollar." I
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19190906.2.40
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 293, 6 September 1919, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
142MAKING THE DEAF HEAR Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 293, 6 September 1919, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in