A Warrant Wanted.

Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 99

A Warrant Wanted.

" Say mister, I want a warrant pretty quick!" exclaimed an irate woman, as she dashed into the Marlborough Street Police Court the other afternoon. "What do you want with a warrant?" asked the sergeant. " For my servant girl. Has she any right to chase me round the house with a clothespole?" " Certainly not." '"That"s what I thought". Which of ue has a right to eat at the first table— she or .me?" " Why, you have, of course." ■"So I supposed. I want to know if 1 Tiave got to sleep on the back fence with the cats four nights in the week, while she gives parties in the kitchen?" "Assuredly not. Why don't you discharge her?" .. • " I can't get near enough- Does the

law justify her in using my false teeth to draw carpet-tacks and making me shine round with nothing on but a hair-pin and a sore throat while she wears my clothes at a wake?" " I don't believe it does." "So I concluded. Gi' me a warrant." " Can't get any warrant here. "Ybu'U have to go before the magistrate in the morning." I' Will, eh? Well, I won't! If you think I'm going to waste any more time Jawing with that girl, you're wrong. Tomorrow morning the oil-can will be left alongside the kitchen stove, and if you find a job lot of legs and backbone around your precincts, you can make up your ideas that that girl is out of a. job, and I'm busy collecting the insurance. You hear me twittering !" And she left, the sergeant wondering if even dynamite would have any effect on a girl who could get the best of that woman.