A GRUDGE. Magistrate (to clergyman summoned for exceeding speed limit): " Well, you say you wore onlv going at eighteen miles an hour, and the constable still declares you were travelling at thirty. Now, I don't like to doubt either of you Can you think why he declares you were going at that rate? Is there any grudge he owes you?" Clergyman: "No, I can't think of anything—unless,' perhaps, it is that I married him three years ago!"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13583, 12 September 1908, Page 5 (Supplement)
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77A GRUDGE. Magistrate (to clergyman summoned for exceeding speed limit): " Well, you say you wore onlv going at eighteen miles an hour, and the constable still declares you were travelling at thirty. Now, I don't like to doubt either of you Can you think why he declares you were going at that rate? Is there any grudge he owes you?" Clergyman: "No, I can't think of anything—unless,' perhaps, it is that I married him three years ago!" New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13583, 12 September 1908, Page 5 (Supplement)
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