What He Was.
George Clarice, the? celebrated negro minstrel, beir^ on one oocsion e-".m---ined as a witness, was severely interrogated by tho barrister, who wished to break down hia evidence. "You are in the negro minstrel business, I believe?" inquired the barrister. "Yes, sir," was the prompt reply. "Is not that rather a low calling?' demanded the barrister. "I don't know but what it ig, sir," replied the minstrel, "but it is so crach better than my father's. that I am rathex pro*?.a of it." "'What -vas your father's calling?" "Ho wa3 a barrister," replied Clarke in a tone that put the court in a roar of lighter,-*
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Manawatu Herald, 9 August 1898, Page 4
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108What He Was. Manawatu Herald, 9 August 1898, Page 4
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