UNRELIABLE EVIDENCE.
"Please, mum, father sent me round to say that your dog Towser 's killed three of his prize Cochinchinas this afternoon," announced an apple-faced youth to the elderly maiden lady, with corkscrew curls, a few doors way. The lady held up her hands in horror. "Towser," she said, "couldn't do such a thing, I'm certain. Go and tell your father that he must have made a mistake, my little man." "But father saw him with one of the fowls in his mouth, mum." "Tell your father circumstantial evidence has led naany a wiser man astray," sniffed the laddy. "Run away and do as I tell you, now." When the boy returned, three minutes later, he struggled with an ear-to-car smile.
"Father's complimehts, mum, and p'r'aps you're right," he said. "He says I'm to tell you that circumstantial evidence would point to the fact that he shot your dog half an hour ago, but on goin' into the matter he reckons as how you'd find the poor thing died o' housemaid's knee!"
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 733, 30 December 1914, Page 3
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173UNRELIABLE EVIDENCE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 733, 30 December 1914, Page 3
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