FIRST CLASS GEAR.

Cromwell Argus, Volume LXI, Issue 3168, 22 June 1931, Page 5

FIRST CLASS GEAR.

A motorist was charged with exceeding the speed limit. "Is It a fact," the judge asked the policeman, "that the defendant's car went round the corner at thirty miles an hour?" The policeman nodded. "Yes, sir. It must have been quite that." "And what gear was he in?" The policeman looked puzzled. "He was travelling too fast for me to see properly, sir, but I remember he had a bowler hat and a green scarf on." _________ • ' Little Betty (reading advertisement): "Mummy, why do boardingnouse proprietors object to children?** "I don't know, and I can't be bothered with such things now. .Go and see what baby Is crying about, tell Gerald to stop shooting peas at people In the street, make Cyril and Dick stop quarrelling, and tell Tommy that If he doesn't stop blowing that trumpet f shall take it away from him!" '• . _ A restaurant-keeper and a dentist in a certain street, who were next-door neighbors, had fallen out over pontics, and It was rather hard on the former when the latter exhibited a glaring announcement to the effect: "Teetn sharpened to tackle tough steaks,'*