“JUST YOU TRY ME.”

Shannon News, 17 August 1926, Page 4

“JUST YOU TRY ME.”

t POUND A DAY ON WHISKY. Explaining his personal expenditure •when undergoing his first examination in bankruptcy at Preston lately, Reuben Duckworth, skip, hamper and basketmakcr, of Preston, said he had spent fl a day on whisky. On being asked by Mr Ashton, solicitor for a trustee, where he got the whisky from, ho replied, “Any public-house that happened to be handy.’ ’ To' Mr Ashton’s suggestion that the amount was exaggerated, Duckworth said: “When 11 o’clock in the morning comes and I have been shivering from the day before, two large glasses of whisky, 3s, a packet of cigarettes, Is; after some dinner a bit of a rest, then some more whisky. Nothing to do in tne shop, so v go to the pictures. 1 have been doing it for a long time.” Mr Ashton: That is not a pound a day. The Debtor: Come and try me with a pound arjd I \will show you whether 1 can drink a pound’s worth, and I will be no worse than I am now. Mr Ashton pointed out that he had so far only, accounted for 7s Sd a day, and the debtor retorted: “I am only beginning at five o’clock: after tea, and I get dressed up, the evening commences. Where iS the ound then?” Duckworth’s deficiency was put down at £172. The examination was adjourned.