Witness: "I spoke to the driver something short."
And sharp, too?
"Are you a judge of speed?" asked a magistrate.
Woman Witness: "Only in regard to talking."
BW
Woman Witness: "I was about to faint when I decided to get legal aid first."
She fainted after she got the legal bill.
Asked by magistrates what evidence he could bring forward as to his previous good, character, a defendant gave undeniable evidence of his blameless life.
"During the Boer War," he said, "I drove the Black Maria in Lincoln."
Somewhere in England there is a motorist who is wondering how he came by an gyercoat which he found on his spofis car and, more important what has happened io the man who should have been inside, And in Rugby there is a pedestrian who is cursing a motorist who whipped his good overcoat from his arm as he was stepping into the road!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.