Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1884 — Mutual Courtesy. [ARTICLE]

Mutual Courtesy.

“So the jury acquitted you, did they ?” remarked a policeman to a particularly hard case, whom he met on the street, and who had just been tried for burglary. “Yos, I got my rights for once.” “Hows that?” “There happened to be some gentlemen on the jury, for a wonder, so I was tried by a jury of my peers, as the law directs.” “I didn’t know there were twelve such scoundrels as you unhung,” was the uncomplimentary retort of the minion of the law. —Texas Siftings.