A BROKEN MAN

Temuka Leader, Issue 336, 4 January 1881, Page 2

A BROKEN MAN

“ Dis feller comes mit my saloi Gratiot street and asks for peer, began the witness, as Samuel Peters stcod at the bar of Justice. “ Yhen he was one glass se dwells to set ’om oop again. Yhen he has two glasses he says he vhas as dry as a prush fence. He drinks six glasses right off, und he says I must sharge it to der sinking fund. I doan’ know vhas such things mean, and I lock der door und makes all ready for a fight mit him.” “ And you had one ? “ Vhell, you can see how ray nose is ' ■ all busted oop, und some plack on my eye, und sooch a badt feeling in my ears. I vhas novhere—yes I vhas under der jp table.” g' “ V T ho struck first ? ” Jf ■ “ Vhell, I gifts him a gentle tap on der nose to make him see dot he must '|k pay oop” . S’ ‘ 9 “ You locked the door on him and tapped him on the nose.” _ ’! “ Well, the prisoner is discharge* f and you can go home ,” . /' “ Vhas ? Doan you send biJ six months ?” t \ t/fV f No, sir.” M Doan’ he pay me for dot peer .j “ 1 guess not.” “ Doan I get some protection; I ’ 1:lw? ” , r/^ : S»n n 1 “Not when you lock the doV "C md begin tickling hia nose v “ Vhell, 1 neffer gee 1 I oop my peesness and Dot preaks me all down like a [ tells der old whomans dot we to Chicago right off”