HELPFUL ADVICE.
He was consulting the lawyer 0$ what was, to him, an important subject His eyes were heavy from loss of sleeu and temper, yet the wrath that com sumed his soul made rest impossible. < "It's this way," he said. "The maJJt who lives next door to me has a beastj of a cat that spends the night sitting on my fence and yowling. Neither nvf wife, the new baby, nor myself has km any sleep for weeks, and I am aboUj! fed up. The man next door refuses tfl got rid of the cat, and I want you tsj i tell me what to do." The lawyer was young, and sat an§|j looked about as wise as a suet-pudding but said nothing. ' "I've got a right to shoot the haven't I?" - > "I should not feel justified in advi& ing such an extreme course. As I S6S it, the cat is not your property." j "Perhaps notj but the fence is I'-* "Aha! Then you haye got him, fflft you can pull the fence downl'i
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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 67, 31 January 1918, Page 4
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176HELPFUL ADVICE. Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 67, 31 January 1918, Page 4
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