Wellington Times in Wellington, New South Wales

Scraps of Fun and a Drunken Oxide Tale in a Laughing Barroom

A garbled set of local comic anecdotes and dialogues from a late era paper sketches a tavern scene. A man mocks a claim for compensation while other patrons quip about love, insanity pleas, and courtship mishaps. Names blur, but a shopkeeper Alexander and a wily tailor named Alex-and-hor surface amid odd banter.