The Archive · 1938

Court Humour

Mactsmrate: Have you anything else to say Woman: No, but I could say a lot if I was at home with my husband.

Constable at Tottenham: I told the driver of the horse and cart that he would be or passing the traffic lights and he said, "You can't summon me, summon the horse; it's his fault."

When a Glamorgan farmer was summoned last week for driving his pony and trap over a controlled crossing against the red light he admitted having seen the light. "But," he added, 'I've seen travelling that road now for over 40 years and I'm danged if I'm going to be stopped by any magic lantern!"

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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