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Temuka Leader, Issue 2195, 30 April 1891, Page 2

Prance last year supplied England with no less than 566 ) 524ewt of butter. Some entertaining stories are told in the current number of the Law Gazette of the tricks by which men summoned as common jurymen attempt to avoid the duty cast upon them. The writer of an article “ Before the Associate”, says that one morning a little girl whose eyes just peeped above the desk, timidly exclaimed, “Please, sir, father can’t come; he can’t put on his boots.” The associate asked the nervous little creature what was the matter with her parent. She hesitated ; evidently she had not been instructed further than the statement she had made, and looking straight into the Associate’s twinkling eyes, she said, “ Well, sir, father don’t wear boots; he’s got woodeii legs. I wasn’t to say anything else, sir; that’s all.” (