A Tows-dweller walking in the country had a conversation with a farm labourer, who, after a few minutes, volunteered the information that he was 64. "You are remarkably fit for a man of 64," said the town-dwell "How old was your father when he died?" "Father's not dead," replied the labourer. "There he is in the garden, reading the paper to grandfather."
Court Jesters Prisoner at London Sessions: I am an innocent man. I have no father and no mother.
The orphan is 80 years old.
I have often brought police cars to the house to deal with my husband.—A woman at Willesden.
Plaintiff (cross examining defendant's wife): Why is your husband not in work?
i How can a man work with three Ulsters in his stomach.
Counsel at Tottenham Police Court: I suppose at that time the sun had set.
Constable: According to my book it hadn't.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.