Wound Up.

Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 73

Wound Up.

' * fir" was "% right of way case, concerning an. .ancient footpath- over the fields of an "estate whlen "had> passed lately from an old family into, the hands of' a rich upstart ~Tlie dispute was carried to the law courts, -and the lawyer appearing on behalf of the new landowner cross-examined & venerable yokel who had testified that to his own personal knowledge -there had been a right of .way over the disputed land ever since he], was a boy of five. "And how old are you now?" asked the lawyer. " "Eighty-five, sir." . "But surely you can't remember things which ' occurred when you were a boy of five, eighty years ago?" said the lawyer in -affected incredulity. "'Deed an' I can, sir," asserted the •octogenarian witness. "I can mind a year afore that, when your fcyther, sir, ' owd " Skinflint Garge ' us called' him " ' "That will do ; you may stand down," said the lawyer hastily, reddening furiously as a titter ran round the court. "got a walloping from Mother Buncombe— — " "Stand down, sir!" roared the lawyer wrathfully. "for chatin' her two-year-owd lues " "Do you hear? Stand down, I say !" shrieked the ' Frenzied lawyer. "a farden out o' the change o' A thruppny bit !" concluded the reminiscent and venerable witness triumphantly, as he slowly left the box.