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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 114, 30 May 1901, Page 4

pasquinades: { This name, which is given to huißJurom libels, originated in this way":—'At the stall of a cobbler named Pasq'uin, at Rome, a number of idle persons used to assemble tc listen to the pieasent sallies cf Pasquin and to relate little anecdotes in their turn, indulge j themselves in raillery at the' expense ol passers-by. After the cobbler's death in the sixteenth century, the statue of a gladiatoi | was found near his stall, to which the people gave his name, and on which the wits of his time affixed their lampoons upon the state, and I heir satirical effusions on their neighbours, secretly at night. Small poems and writings of a similar kind from this obtained the name of Pasquinades, about the year 1533. ONE FOR HIS NOB. The lawyer had been badgering the wit ness for some time, and finally asked " Was any member ol you.r family ever hanged ?" " Yes, sir." " Ah, ah 1 I thought as much. Now, sir, who was it ?" " Myself." •' Yourself I Do you mean to say you have been hanged, and are alive to tell it ?" 1 " Come, now, no trifling, Tell the jury what you were hanged for, and how you happen to be alive to day." " Well, sir, a man was killed, and I was suspected of having committed the crime A mob took me out, put a rope round my neck, and just hauled mc up to the limb of a tree, when some one in the crowd sbouteil that the murdered man wasacertain lawyer. They couldn't cut me down quick enough ! I was filled up with the best whisky the i place afforded, and given a banquet as the greatest public benefactor in the history ol Ihe town "

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