Show Tit for Tat A man was brought up in a provincial provin provin- cial court on a charge of of stealing a asack asack asack sack of flour anti and was very severely handled by the prosecuting lawyer who had once made himself notorious by going int into bankruptcy which was the only means by which he could escape this his debts You admit that you stole the sack of flour asked the counsel sternly Yes but I took it honestly It-honestly and in broad daylight to save my children from starvation pleaded the pris pris- oner You call that honesty do you sneered the lawyer I call It amazing impudence Stealing is stealing from whatever point of view yo you you care to look at it Just so mister but it dont don't allus bring the same punishment retorted retort d the man in the dock For instance I shouldn't have be been n here now if It Id I'd done as you used to do bought dO-bought bought or ordered ordered ordered or or- dered the flour and never never paid for forIt forit forit It And even the magistrate chuckled behind his papers at the bullying lawyers lawyer's lawyers lawyer's lawyers lawyer's law law- yer's discomfiture London London Answers t |