A MEASURE OF WOES.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 46, 9 June 1880, Page 2

A MEASURE OF WOES.

The delights and sweets of legal satisfaction were lately made apparent to Mr. Richard Feck m a most unmistakeable manner. Some few months since Mr. Peck had a slight difference with his housekeeper, and the lady m the earnestness of her dis?, sent signalised the occasion by perforating the windows of the establishment with geological specimens. The argumentative weapons used being too forcible for Mr. Richard Peck, that gentleman threw up tha sponge, swore an information against his opponent, and the consequence was that Mr. J?eck was left home -keeper! ess for six calendar months. When Mr. Peok, however, took legal action he was not only m. dignant but impecunious, and m a fit of generosity |Mr. Foster, the worthy Clerk of the Court, advanced from his own pocket the necessary preliminary fees, Richard promising m the most solemn manner a speedy refund. If Mr. Peok wai then impecunious, time has since proved that he is ungrateful, for he has determinedly refused to return the money so kindly advanced to him, and as the clerk found he had been "foster "-ing a viper m his bosom, he put the machinery of the law m force, and handed the delinquent over to the tender mercy of Messrs Hawkins and Ward. A judgment was given against Mr. Peck, and he should certainly be now satisfied, as he has had his windows smashed, had to pay the original ten shillings court fees, six shillings costs, a guinea to Mr. Hawkins, and the loss of his day beside. If the measure of his woes be not now full, hit receiving vessel must be considerably more than a peck.