SELLING A PRISONER.
. Did yon ever Leaf of Sir Andrew Wallace seizing a man that was drunk and putfng him up ai auction. I must tell you this story? Sqube Wallace was a captain in the militia; ami 6.»e day, after the training was "over,
and just before the men were dismissed from parade, ho took a guard with him and made a prisoner of Pat Sweeney, who was a powerful drinker—drink as much at a time as a carnal almost. “Pat,” says he, “I seize you,” in the King’s name. “ Me,” says Pat, scratching his head, and looking abroad, bewildered like ; “ I’m not a smuggler ! Touch me if you dare !” “I seize you,” says he, “ for a violation of excise law, for carrying about you more than a gallon of fum without permit and tomorrow I shall sell you by auction to the highest bidder. You are a forfeited article, and I could knock you on the head and let it out, if I liked ; so no nonsense, man.” And lie sent him off to jail screaming and screeching like mad, he was so frightened. The next day Pat was put up to auction and knocked down to his wife, who bid him in at 40s.
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Kumara Times, Issue 929, 22 September 1879, Page 3
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