NO PROVOCATION.
"What I say is quite right you know,"' said the man in the witnessbox. "The man who has just moved into the next house to mine wilfully threw a pot over the fence and hit my wife in the face as she was looking over the railings." "And you persist in saying that your neighbour deliberately seized the | can and hit her ?" asked the judge. "Yes, yer honour." j "Did she give him any provocation ?" I "Well, yer honour, it was like ; this " j "Did she, or did she not ?" snapped the judge angrily. j "No," sir. All she gave him was a j piece of her mind and a couple of ! clouts over the head with a clothes- ■ prop !'*
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 31, 16 April 1907, Page 2
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122NO PROVOCATION. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 31, 16 April 1907, Page 2
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