Would Argue Still.
Mr MR , now on the staff of one of | 1 the big daily newspapers, was at one time ! I a reporter in San Francisco. H© was the j most argumentative and at the same time i the calmest man that ever entered that fiery town. He would stop work at a fire to argue. Mr M"R was on his way home early one morning, when an American citizen suddenly popped up with a pistol levelled at his head, and said : "Throw up yer hands!" "Why?" asked Mr MR , undisturbed. I "Throw them up." "But what for?" I "Put up yer hands," insisted the footpad, shaking the pistol. "Will yer do what I tell yer?" "That depends," said Mr MR . "If ye can show me any reason why I should put up my hands, I'll no say but what I will ; but yer mere request wad be no justification for me to do sac absurd a thing. Noo, why should you, a complete stranger, ask me at this oor o' "the mornin'. in a public street, tae put up my hands?" "Confound yer!" cried the robber, "if yer don't quit gabbin' and obey orders. I'll blow the tip of yer nose off!" "What ! Faith, man, ye must be oot o' yer head. Come, noo, puir buddy." said Mr MR , soothingly, coolly catching the pistol and wresting it with a quick twist out of the man's hand — "come, noo, and I'll show ye where they'll take care o' ye ! Hech! Dinna try tae fecht, or. ecod, I'll shoot ye. By the way, ye might as well put up yer am hands, and jist walk ahead o' me. That's it. Strid-o awa noo!" And so Mr MR marched his man to , the city prison, and handed him over to the inspector in charge. "It wudna be a bad idea tae pit him in a strait-jacket," he said serenely to the
officer. "There's little doot but the body's, daft."' And he resumed his interrupted Lomc- \\ aril walk.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 91
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336Would Argue Still. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 91
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