Sergeant (old school). "Oh! And does the colour suit you, Sir?"
The Charge of the Six Hundred.
Some three-score years or so ago six hundred gallant men
Made a charge that cost old England dear, they lost four hundred then;
To-day six hundred make a charge that costs the country dear,
But now they take four hundred each—four hundred pounds a year.
"Somebody to steal of my cabbage, cauliflower, old potato, new potato, and a small rake and hooks, fork. Everything. Somebody snatch on Thursday and Saturday night. Perhaps anybody to see the steal man to take something from my garden to tell me about that is I will reward five pounds truth, £3 for tell-tale.—Wong Long."
Poverty Bay Herald.
Wong Long apparently differs from the accepted authorities as to the value of hearsay evidence.