A CHANGE OF TASTE.
« Samuel Day, your smartness will strike in some day and be the death of you V was his Honour’s greeting to a prisoner other morning. Samuel stood there on one leg and looked foolish, and the Court continued —‘ You were here a month ago, and your breath smelt of onions so terribly that I hustled you out without regard to the interests of justice. You have returned with the same odour about you, expecting the same results, but ah ! ray boy, my taste has undergone a radical change. In four short weeks I have learned to love the odour given out by the shiny onion, and I welcome you here 1 If time allowed I would like to have you stand there all day and breathe at me ; but it won’t, and I shall send you to join the procession which keeps lockstep while marching to meals.’ * Whad di do V inquired the prisoner. ‘ I can’t look up your history just now, Samuel. You have been here for wifjebeating, drunkenness, and Jupiter knows what else. The charge this time is disturbing the peace, and I know that if there was any to disturb you are guilty. Go in and sit down and chew away on your onion, and be glad that I didn’t make the sentence six months.’
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Globe, Volume V, Issue 525, 23 February 1876, Page 3
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222A CHANGE OF TASTE. Globe, Volume V, Issue 525, 23 February 1876, Page 3
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