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Show HE SLIPPED. - THE last prisoner out was an old man with a bad crook in his back, and after looking him over the court observed: <br><br> "What's the trouble with you?" <br><br> "No matter! S'long's I know, that's ‘nuff!" <br><br> "If you talk that way, I won't try you at all." <br><br> "I don't care!" <br><br> "Well now, old man, you slip right out of this! If you think we are going to bother around with wild oats you are greatly mistaken!" <br><br> "I don't like this town a bit!" <br><br> "Well, you can soon get out. If you get drunk again the police needn't bother to bring you in, for I won't have anything to do with you. Slip right along out, and don't you ever get in here again!" <br><br> The old man slipped, but after court was over he came back and threatened to mash Dijah? because he wasn't treated as if his case of drunkenness was worth writing out a complaint. -Detroit Press. |