I assured him the instances he had mentioned were isolated and unauthorized acts, told in a very distorted manner but mitigated, as they really were, when truly related, they were at the time received with the unanimous disapprobation of every right-thinking man in the kingdom, and that the odium which had fallen on the relators, was so immeasurably greater than what had been bestowed on the thoughtless principals, that there was no danger of such things again occurring in our day.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
In others, again, the relators are birds, as in the Indian work entitled Hamsa Vinsati, or Twenty Tales of a Goose.
"Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers"
W. A. Clouston
The argument was opened on behalf of the relators by Mr. Gizzard Tobin.
"Sube Cane"
Edward Bellamy Partridge