A THIEF'S MISTAKE.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4566, 23 August 1883, Page 2

A THIEF'S MISTAKE.

There is a proper way of dealing with the rough, but it is not every one who can safely practise it. There, for iustance, is L., a member of the Club, who now takes deserved ease and wears kid gloves on week day a. and years ago there was not one of his men who oould rival "the master" at the bottom of a deep tank oo the back plains of Riverina. If he does now take life in a leasurely way, he has won the right to do so. Some time ago' he was, at a late hour, passing through a public reserve near his home when a man accosted him and asked him what the time was; He politely struck a match, looked at his watch, which the man snatched and then attempted to bolt. But L. was the wrong man with whom to take liberties, as his assailant painfully discovered. After breakfast next morning our friend strolled into the reserve, and, meeting a constable, inquired, "Anyone dead about here this morning ?" " No. What do you mean, sir ?" " Well, I phoked a fellow here last night, and threw him under that tree. I am just curious to know whether anyone has taken him away. I'—sJgU?g.