UNCONSCIONABLE EXPECTATION.

A CULPRIT having been adjudged, on a conviction of perjury, to lose his

ears, when the executioner came to put the sentence in force, he was

rather disappointed at finding the fellow had been cropped before. The

criminal with great _sang froid_ exclaimed, "What! do you think I am

always obliged to find you ears?"

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