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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1918, 25 February 1875, Page 2

Making it a Caution to Him.—The following example is placed on record by the Detroit Free Press :•—-" Can't find anything to do but loaf around the wharves and gallop up and down the alleys, he " remarked his Honor, as a young man named Miller, charged with vagrancy, was rushed out. "lam a stranger in this town —dead-broke, and nobody to borrow of," replied the prisoner. "1. can't help iir^liat-jfouvare dead-broke," said the

Court. " I'd Be~glad~ifTe^B^hodjLOvraed a silver mine and too coach dogs\ Tireofficer says you have been roaming aimlessly around, sleeping on bales of hay, taking free lunches, and making no effort to amass a fortune, You don't seem to have any aim, any ambition." " Yes, I have," replied the prisoner. "Where is it sir—where is it P " asked his Honor, leaning forward! "Did you ever hear of Cicero taking free lunches? Did you ever hear that Plato gambolled through the alleys of Athens ? Tell me sir, did you ever hear anyone say that Demosthenes slept under a coal shed or on a bale of hay P If you wanted to be a Plato there would be fire in your eye, your hair would have an intellectual cut; you'd step into a clean shirt, and you'd hire a mowing machine to pare those finger nails. Sir, you hare got to go up for four months.