Though the Judge at the Prov visional Court on Monday rose in his seat on the bench several times to peer at him behind the dock-rail, Tsiang Ka-ong, a youthful rug picker stoutly insisted he was 21 years of ugo. The fact was that only a black mass of hair was visible above the witness box to pi those in court, and he was officially set down as being 13.
He said it was his first appearance in any court, and came only because of a severe drubbing received at the hands of two rivals in the rag picking business who confessed to ages of 12 and 14 respectively, and in their gases the court accepted the ages given with
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