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Musing On The Treatment By The Courts Of Those Arrested During The Recent Disturbances...
...these few lines came to mind.
Last night among his fellow roughs,
He tested, quaffed and swore.
A drunken young lad on the dole
Who never look'd before.
Today beneath the judge's frown he stands in Tommees place.
Ambassador from council slum
And best of all his race.
Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught
Bewildered and alone,
A heart with English instinct fraught,
He yet can call his own.
I think he and his fellow 'offenders' will do their porridge with stoic good humour.
What say you?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Hi Sandy, I have protested about the modding of the cow problem in my usual forthright terms.
It cannot beSir Franky making good ( Fisher was the first midshipman (RN not army) to rise to Admiral. - so it must be about a Tommy
and it is clearly about being drunk and disorderly at what were then called Police Courts
( and then he joins up and turns his life around)
parallel breaks ( and I love tortured parallel as you know) - as this was riot, Cardigan ( 1856 - that one, charge of the Light Brigade) - "the tommy joins a regiment in order to fornicate". - - oops oblique parallel to cows -
and finally (3) - you cant now join up and change your life until your record is clean for 2 y
Three good reasons to delete this !
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