CARRIE'S CARRYING CAPACITIES.

NZ Truth, Issue 127, 23 November 1907, Page 6

CARRIE'S CARRYING CAPACITIES.

Carry Can't Carry Any More.

Carrie Corbett is a lady who is much better known yi Wellington than she is' m Christohurch. .She certainly never visited Guv'ment House m the Windy city, but she was a regular visitor to a Government house— any policeman "will swear to that. However, not long ago Carrie— who certainly will never marry a baronet— shifted her luggage to Christchurch, and soon became the cynosure of official eyes. She is a plain, hard-faced harridan, with a hack .is broad as a goodsized woodheap. and owns up to being 'thirty-six. 'Although she is comparatively young m years she is old m sin. and her record shows that she . hasn't backed- the right horse m the race of fate. The trouble about Carrie 0. is that she drinks too strong a brew; she should make special arrangements for a special brew of her own. The nresent sample given her by Mr Glass Wiper stands her on her head m a manner of speaking. Her potations have been so unduly frequent latterly that she found herself charged at the Christehurch' Police Court with being

AN HABITUAL DRUNKARD the other day. She had been found lying m Hagley Park the night previous as boozed as-Chloc. Judging by the way her name has been handed down lately from generation to generation, Chloe must have been "a sot. and under our present laws she would have been prohibited with great enthusiasm. Carrie's lamentations m .the dock when she realised what was m store for her were pitiable ; they were like the . cries of a lost pup m a big Metropolis. She wanted just another charnst and she would . leave the swankey alone and tackle graft ; m

fact, she had a billet to go to m. the next five minutes or less. Inquisitive Magistrate Day wanted details about that employment, and when she replied that it was to look after the children of a woman who' went out to work "he didn't think it good enough. She might as well have told him that she was going to run a tramcar or the Bank of New Zealand. In the end there was . : curry for Carrie. She was sent to the Samaritan Home for two whole years. It was a dramatic sentence, delivered m a dramatic way, but there was no applause from the recipient of the Court's ro3 r al favor.