are lurid.

Squinny Peters (plain drunk--five bob or the risin'), who is peculiar
for always paying his fine, elects to take it out this time. It
appears that the last time Squinny got five bob or the risin' he
ante'd up the splosh like a man, and the court rose immediately, to
Squinny's intense disgust. He isn't taking any chances this time.

Wild-Flowers-Charley, who recently did a fortnight, and has been out
on bail, has had a few this morning, and, in spite of warnings from
and promises to friends, insists on making a statement, though by
simply pleading guilty he might get off easily. The statement lasts
some ten minutes. Mr Isaacs listens patiently and politely and
remarks:

"Fourteen days."

Charley saw the humour of it afterwards, he says.

But what good does it all do?

I had no wish to treat drunkenness frivolously in beginning this
sketch; I have seen women in the horrors--that ought to be enough.




"ROLL UP AT TALBRAGAR"

Jack Denver died at Talbragar when Christmas Eve began,