AN ACCOMMODATING BAILLIE.
"For being drunk and disorderly, you are fined ten shillings," said a Glasgow magistrate to a prisoner at the bar. "Ten shillings!" exclaimed the culprit. "Baillie, you're surely no in earnest. Wh-t'a to come o' my wife and weans ? — they maun starve or beg." " Weel, weel, I'll make it seven and sixpence, and not a farthing less," said the baillie, so far yielding to the appeal. " Oh, bailie, just think what seven and sixpence is to a puir man in thae hard times. An' there's no a grain o' meal in the boose, nor as muckle coal as would mak a tire if there was," once more urged the drouthy one.
"Make it five shillings, then," said the good uatured judge ; " and though ye were the king on the throne, I wouldiia let you off cheaper." Weel. baillie," said the cunning sconndrel, " Mary and me and the weans maun submit ;" and as he said ihis, he added in an audible undertone, " Blessed is he that considereth the poor." This softened still mor? the heart of the baillie, and he said, " Weel, then, half-a-crown, and done wit." At which low figure the culprit felt afraid to press for further reduction, and accepted the decision. i
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Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 348, 18 April 1874, Page 3
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207AN ACCOMMODATING BAILLIE. Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 348, 18 April 1874, Page 3
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