THE VINEGAR MAN.
" Rather funny, Charles Settle, as he stood,-before , the • desk, and shifted his weight' from one .■'* leg to the other... ,|: -v His Honor, was silent .. Continued Charles, as he kept his gaze- •. oii'the ceiling. • • More silence/ " I'll be careful tow. I handle the: stuff after this. Might-just ?as well : r have exploded and blode me.to pieces."- V! v "Prisoner*" said his Honor, as he : .v. suddenly looked up, " you were'drunk ; last night." , - " Say, Judge, that's a mistake. I : started home from the grocery-last . • -••• night .with'a jug of vinegar.' :1 pretty fast and I suppose that auction, The stuff .began to buzz,.: , [i and directly, a side of ihe jug blew oufc : : .- and the fumes , rendered, ■- met •; unconscious,";•. V;. ' . ■ > ■ "Thirty daysA'quietly remarM'!\' j '..
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2717, 5 October 1887, Page 2
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125THE VINEGAR MAN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2717, 5 October 1887, Page 2
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