SAYINGS IN THE ENGLISH COURTS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7912, 28 July 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)

SAYINGS IN THE ENGLISH COURTS.

‘How many vehicles oa„ abreast in this street ?” a solicitor *! a witness in the Bharediitch A? Court. ""l * * * Cirarged at Brighouse with tU defendant, asked why he had run. 1 ' replied:— “I don’t like bobbies.” * * * “Once we give way to wom c „ |» not worth living,” said the WiC magistrate, recently. “ A spoilt s worse than a spoilt child ” 9111 *" * * Solicitor (in a compensation o». tile Bow County Court) : “ W]._'V e you take ?” 1 The Claimant (with a n,rr.a look): “Nothing now, tliank yj “Read anything—aboiTt the or the latest in dress fashions—,),, thing, rather than money-lenders’.' Inis,” said the Clerken|well fw Court judge. * * * “The doctor says you are » ~i. drinker,” said Mr. d'Kyneourt'to a^ “A chronic drinker!” man. “I’m a boot-repairer." c When a witness at Greenwich * asked “What are you?” he /ULsweJ “A builder by trade.” “And what by occupation?" ai L the chief clerk. “A bookmaker,” was the reply. A carpenter who was quo,ti onw j. the Ipswich Bankruptcy Court at his method of bookkeeping snj<J “I used to write the amounts o, board, and when they were' nvj planetl them out.” # * * A witness at Woolwich Police Ca was a telephone operator, and Mr. S, mons remarked:— “It will be quite refreshing to W telephone operator say sometliing than ‘What number did you say?'" Mi*. Nixon (the clerk): "They sometimes say, ‘Number engig (M jV A greengrocer who was accused, Marylebone of working a horse in unfit state, urged that he drovethea mal through nine policemen without ing stopped. “You drove over nine asked Mr. Plowden, with aUtom's'lun, “No; I drove through them." he plied. " But that is worse,” said Mr. Ph den ; “ if you can drive through « pol man you can drive through anythin