WISE AND OTHERWISE.
SAYINGS IN THE ENGLISH COURTS. A Tottenham police court dialogue—"Prisoner: "It's the first time I've been here." Alderman Hugget: "Well, pay five shillings entrance fee." Defending Solicitor (at Preston): "Do you know your husband has been il! arid taking medicine?" Witness: "The only medicine he haß been taking is beer." In the course of a charge of being drunk and disorderly brought against a Walsall woman, a constable said that Bhe followed him about the streets, wanting to kiss him. The Mayor: "That is the result of being good-looking." "I was not drunk," declared a prisoner. "I was only intoxicated." "Ah," remarked the magistrate, "that makes all the difference! I was going to fine you half a sovereign. An it is I shall only fine you ten shillings."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 639, 31 January 1914, Page 2
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131WISE AND OTHERWISE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 639, 31 January 1914, Page 2
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