The most deadly Insult one can offer a French policeman is to say to hij», "Death to the cows!" A few days ago in the (Rennes Appeal Co*rt, M. <Se Savignon Larombiere (says the Paris correspondent of tlie London Daily Mail of February 28tli), the Judge explained to a policeman that a cow was ''a noble and beautiful animal,'* and therefore its name could not be considered a term of opprobrium. Yesterday a vagabond who cams up on appeal before M. de Savignon Larombiere had his original term of imprisonment doubled. On hearing the sentence tlie prisoner called the Judge an "old cow." Immediately the Judge, forgetting his philosophic defence of a few days bofore, ordered the vagabond's term of iiupriscmment to be further indt'eMctf
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 April 1913, Page 5
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125Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 April 1913, Page 5
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