A Logical Witness.
, ' You are a native of this parish ?' asked a sheriff of a witness who was summoned to testify in a case of illicit distilling. * Maistly, yer honour,' was the reply. * I mean were you born in this parish ?' ' ' No, yer honour, I wasna born in the parish ; but I'm maist a native for a'that.' * You Game here when you were a child, I suppose, you mean ?' said the sheriff! 4 No, sir yVm here just aboot sax year * Then how do you come to be mostly a native ©f the parish ?' ; * Weel, ye see, when I cam here, sax year sin', I 1I 1 just weighed eight stane, and 'I'm -fully seventeen stanes noo ; sac ye see that aboot' nine stane o' me belangs t p this- parish ; an' the ither eight comey ■ raeCamlachie.' i
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 206, 4 June 1887, Page 5
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138A Logical Witness. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 206, 4 June 1887, Page 5
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