"Hail, Caesar!"

NZ Truth, Issue 1194, 18 October 1928, Page 11

"Hail, Caesar!"

IT was one of those thriving country, towns which, die a sudden death at dark, and. but for the arrival of the drummers from the great metropoli, or" a meeting of the church members to decide a matter of clerical vestments, the streets after the evening meal has been consumed are as the highways of a lost world. But those Captain Bloods of the commercial road who solace their hours of separation from their dear spouses by quaffing an occasional bowl, at times lend an air of semi-life to townships, and. not so many nights ago a few Who had gathered together with a gift for fraternity" and an appreciation of John Barleycorn, discovered about an hoijr before midnight that they had a gnawing wolf within! These commercial buccaneers, sparking on all cylinders Set forth . to the nearest meal shop, and seeing .a motor-car about to start m the direction of their objective, they hailed the driyer with: "Ho! , There, give us a lift to Peter's." A swarthy face with a smile on it turned their way, and they discovered that it. was none othe^r -than .-"-a judge of the Supreme Courtl '■■■■•.■■■'. . \'.- . ■.■ '. ', .'; With a modesty rare to their kind, the brothers;- in -arms decided pfornp.tly that there • had, been a' miscarriage of judgment, and not wishing to face, before their time, . an eminent light of the judiciary they, turned tail and fled into. the nlgHt. . ' : \< .■..■ r"-- ..'■ ■ • - '.'; ; . ■'