Tight, Tighter, Tightest
-flEgles, m the Australasian, , says: — In one of the firewood township there was a general festivity of the usual kind amongst the splitters on .Easter Monday, and amongst the gayest of the gay (for held most liquor! was the local: policeman. On Tuesday he summoned a travelling swagman for being drunk. There is only one J. P. m the township and this gentleman; was m b°d suffering a recovery. After a couple of hours delay, the magistrate, by the aid of ~ persistent so i a water, was able to sit tolerably straight, and read the prisoner a most edyfying lecture ,on the sin ot drunkenness, but he had the grace to> finally dismiss him with * caution* The only stranger m the court was my informant, who declares that "%? prisoner was tight, the policeman tighter,, and his worship the tightest of tha three."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 209, 9 August 1883, Page 2
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145Tight, Tighter, Tightest Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 209, 9 August 1883, Page 2
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