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Evening Star, Issue 3282, 27 August 1873, Page 3

Some People have a Way of Accounting for Everything.—Florence: My egg’s quite cold ! I wonder why ?—Ethel; JSo’s mine. Can’t you guess ?—Florence :No ! Ethel : Why they’ve been boiled in cold water, stoopid ! — Punch. Two navvies were charged at Birmingham with stealing a fowl. From the evidence of Police Constable Eaves, it appeared that at midnight on the 12th inst. he walked past a brick-kiln, and observed the two prisoners asleep on the ground. He aroused them, and in reply to his questions, they said they had permission to stay there. Eaves saw on the fire a large ball of clay, from which were projecting two feathers. He opened the clay, and in the centre of it ho found a large hen. The bird was neither dressed nor plucked. The constable explained that by this mode of cookery the trouble of plucking and dressing the fowl was saved, the skin and feathers being easily peeled off after it was cooked. It was considered a very savory dish.— (Laughter.) They pleaded guilty, and wore sentenced to one month’s imprisonmnent each, —Birmingham Daily Mqik