A SAFE WAGER.
A tough-looking citizen walked into one of the Justices' Courts yesterday forenoon very much intoxicated, and requested that he be allowed to swear off drinking for a year. His Honor obligingly put him through the solemn motions, and the convert, with a confused rumble of wellmeant but extremely profane resolutions, stumbled out of the court-room. don't keep it an hour," said' Hfcf the grinning lawyers. j jgmet he sticks to it for a week, anyHSLobserved the Court, with contiMLNonsenV!)]" cried everybody. ■■Vhat'llyou bet?," asked the Judge, BHwenty to f ten," exclaimed an eager jUraey, at the same time producing the cried His Honor, and the WBBwere turned over to a Chronicle HHpnstable," said the Court quietly, HHut and fetch that man back." HBS few minutes the reformed one was SHit in, and the Judge ascended liis for order, and looked with being drunk said the wurl. (Juess I'm full," admitted the prisoner with an idiotic sm'le. " '.'en days in the County gaol. Constable, lock up your prisoner. Mr Reporter, land this Court that wealth, Court's adjoirned.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 270, 2 October 1879, Page 3
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179A SAFE WAGER. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 270, 2 October 1879, Page 3
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