CONSISTENCY.

Kumara Times, Issue 592, 21 August 1878, Page 2

CONSISTENCY.

:i ..-v TT."' . “My name is Carson—Mary Carsdfij” responded a very shadowy woman, asrshe grasped the railing, and leaned forward until her nose was only six inches froor his Honour’s eyes, “ I suspected as much,” he replied. “ Tis said to hear that yon staggered into a wood yard and fell down in a drunken i fit.” “ I never fell down in no wood i yard,”'she hotly replied; “ I fell down on : -the walk and was carried into a wood-yard.” “ Odds the difference, Mrs Carson.” “Well, I don’t want no one to slander, me, Mister Judge. I’ve i gotffolks here,* and how’d they feel to • hear that I fell down in a wood-yard 1 '■ When yoti put' me on trial you ought to be consistent.” Mrs. Carson, were I you intoxicated 1” “I gueap I was' pretty HaiMr It" Well, r then, what’s j the difference, whether you fell down I on the walk or in a wood-yard 1” “A I gfeat deal sir"; and if the matter isn’t set Hght'l’ll raise a, fuss about it.” i rid;: going’ib send you to the j house of correction,” “ I knoV it, but j you’ve to dd it legally and consistently, j It’s no disgrace for *ne to go there, If j the:superintendent, who is a very nice manj cttn stand it up' there I guess I j xaih.” rtri glad you feel that way, Mis I S6me f women,‘placed in your I would . behave very badly.” r“ A true behaves herself j in gaol as well as in her parlor,” re- ) marked the prisoner, elevating her nose -to add to her look of dignity. The sentence was" recorded at sixty days.— Detroit Free Press.