RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE.
" Abner Weeks, who are you, and why do you stand before me ?" asked his Honour of the next prisoner. " I'm a plumber, s'pose I was drunk," was the reply. " Ah, it does me good to see you here," continued the Court. " Plumber, eh ? One of those sort of men who agrees to fix a water-pipe right off, and then gets around to it a week from Saturday ! I'll plumb you before we get through. I've had the bill come in, and paid, and jumped on my hat and solemnly vowed that I'd get even some day. I've had to carry water four blocks for the last month because the plumbers could not come and plumb, and now Abner Weeks, I'll leave it to yourself if I ought not to send you up for three months." Abner pondered over the case, and finally said he thought thirty days was about the figure. " Well, I'll say thirty to you and put ninety on the commitment," continued his Honor, "and you can argue it out with the officials up there."
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 345, 21 July 1875, Page 3
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