14 NOVEMBER 1931, Page 19

A POULTERER'S Prry.

An old woman was " pulled up " before Lord Mayor Key on Monday, for stealing a goose. She was identified, as well as the goose, by the poulterer's man. The old lady said, in reference to a charge of havmg, on a former occasion, stolen a couple of ducks, that she knew nothing of the poulterer, but that he acted very unlike a gentleman to point out a person he never had seen before as a thief. Poulterer—" Oh, Lord I do you hear she ? Why didn't you tell me, when you stole the ducks, that you didn't like for to eat nothing half so well as a bit of nice poultry ? and didn't master take pity on you, and tell you to go to h-11 Y "