A magistrate’s life could be kept very busy back in 1851 if ruffians, escaped prisoners, adulterers, inebriates and horse thieves had their way . .
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Fascinating info from eGGSA.org
Free State Action 1851
Vrystaat Confessions
– looking back with fondness at lives we couldn't wait to leave! –
Vrystaat Confessions 
Hendrik Netmann would not have been the last person to be inebriated on the banks of the Wilge river, the Tugela and others. Miraculously, many of us lived to tell the tale.
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Sanks goodness when we did fall in we crawled out shouting More Beer! – Now: When are those magpies gonna start dancing?
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