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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 22, 11 July 1868, Page 5

A Begging. Imposter. — A sturdy knave was sent to jail by the London, police magistrates far a trick which deserves the halberds and the cat* v anything can deserve that punishment. The scoundrel was taken becoincr in the Waterloo Road. He OO O had a printed bill before him on the pavement, setting forth that he was a bricklayer who had fallen, from, a scaffold and bitten off his tongue^ besides breaking his arm. In a, bottle by his side, in what looked like spirits of wine, he had suspended a- piece of sheepskin cut into the forni-of a human tongue, and this, exhibition, of course brought, in no, end of coppers from the credulous charitable. Ajx officer who knew -" the rascal as a professional imposter laid hands upon him, and found pence and half pence in his pocket to the amount of 3s 9d,. and his. tongue inside his mouth as usual In. the late American vdjm9sxby ' T of Confederates, inarching through a swamp, were ordered to form two> deep. A corporal immediately exclaimed;--* I'm too deep already ; I am up fefc.#i9 middle."