AN ACCOMMODATING BALLIE.

Evening Star, Issue 3477, 15 April 1874, Page 2

AN ACCOMMODATING BALLIE.

(dedicated to the resident MAGISTRATE.) For being drunk and disorderly, you art fined £en stallings,” said a Glasgow magisvrate to a pri at the bay, * <( Ten shillings 1” erulainied the culprit. Bailie. you’re surely no ia earnest. What’s to come o’ my wife aud weans ?—they maun starve or bog.” “Weel, weel, I’ll make it seven and sixpence, and not a farthing less,” said the bailie, so far yielding to the appeal. “Oh, bailie, just hint what seven and sixpence is to a puir man in thae bard times. n there’s no a grain o’ meal in the boose nor as muckle coal as would mak a firs if - there was,” once more urged the drouthy one “ Make it five shillings, then,” B aid the goodnatured judge; “aud though ye were cheaper^” 00 th * tkr ° ne * 1 * ouldna let you dff l( Wee1 ’ cunning scoundrel. Mary aud me and the weans nunn submit •” and as he said this, he added in an audible Spoon’’ S i6Bß ? di ? h-that considered i his softened still mere the heart of the bailie, and he said, “Weel, then, ha.f-a* crown, aud done wit.” to Dres^fo^a 1 1 l gUr ° ? ul P rit felt rei “ Ch "“- “ d