WHAT IS A JOY WHEEL?

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1722, 12 April 1913, Page 18

WHAT IS A JOY WHEEL?

COUNSEL'S AMUSING DESCRIPTION IN THE HIGH COURT. ' Mr. Justico Lush oonfossod in tho King's Bench Division recently tliat lie did not'know what-a "joy-wheel" was. An amusing description was promptly supplied by counsel. . , , Tlio occasion was tho recital of the details of an accident which occurred early one Sunday 'morning in tho market square of' Aylesbury while a travelling bioscope una joy-wheel were passing through 1 tho town. "What is a joy-wheel?" asked Mr. Justico Lush; "I don't know." "Oil," said Mr. _ Lewis Thomas, K.C., "it is a wheel more or less on the horizontal, which rotates with moro or less rapidity upon its own axis. A person rides upon tho revolving wheel, and the nearer the periphery of tho wheel ho is tho moro surely he is flung off. (Laughter.) The more rapidly the wheel revolves the moro quickly is lio hurled into space." (iAugnter.)' "My friend," • Mr. Thomas pursued, "tells mo that it has a smooth eurfaco. (Laughter.) Personally I havo never tried it." "Do thoy. call that a joy-wheel? asked Mr. Justico Lush. "Oh," said Mr. Thomas, "thn joy is of tho other pcoplo wlio look on."

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