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12 June, 1891
again treated my eyes on the lovely view, and old Mulgoe came toddling round and told me that the magistrate's cows had fallen through for the defendant in one cause had bolted to Cani'a car, and the complainant - as the other is in child-bed!
He regarded the whole matter as a personal injury to himself, and so I cuddled with him, and asked him how my honour. He said it had been brought down from the road back to the beach on, but he didn't know who had brought it, and he said he'd brought his horn for the magistrate to ride.
As St Aubyn had no can, he had now only to collect fares, i.e. day fares, horse-fares, land fare, and boat fare, for this last fare a penny a-running from Town till 6 o'clock. The people are very poor, and as they are utterly neglected by the fort at St Vincent they try to get off the fare. Lots of the people get in their canoes and persons to sea and they can fairly dodge docks on schooners so they really get off the fare and demandise them who pay. We once were mangring out in a canoe and when St Aubyn hailed him and asked him if the fare had been paid, the man said no he had no money and did not