QUEEN ELIZABETH!

NZ Truth, Issue 140, 22 February 1908, Page 6

QUEEN ELIZABETH!

A Beery Trol Trotted Off. Elizabeth. Adams is a jolly good sort, for she always provides work at the Magistrate's Court.' Mostly at 'the Ghristchurch Police Court, the interior of which is indelibly stamped on her beer-smairohed mind. She has a record of 75— not 75 yards— but yards, where the swallow doesirt -whistle and the dogfish doesn't sine;. The lady is really a veritable old ifrollop with respectable looks that would charm any . unmarried parson and send prohibitionists to wallow m .the muddy- stream of inebriety. But it was up to Elizabeth—Queen Elizabeth of the frothy tftrone-r-.to, explain the other day why she shouldn't be , GAOLED -FOR A COUPLE OF; YEARS uofter an Act designed to, prevent too frequent lushing on the part' of disreputable citizens. The occupant oJ the dock, with tears falling oil her pinny, said she wasn't an habitual within the meaning of the Runi Looking (Bass Act, but had to confess to the drinky record, and admit that she had just come out of .the Salvation Army Home after doing two months ■for committing dampness m heir ssomaoh -and sending numbness to her brain. ' The Magistrate remarked, as he wiped, his glasses, that coming out of the Salvarmy doss house is no -excuse for setting drunk, but Adams —who ought to confine herself exclusively to. Adam's ale— apparently thought it was. At any rate, she pleaded the warm weather also, but that was no use, for she sets warm enough weather where she is now, m the Sumatra/tin Home.