THE JUDGE AND THE CHINAMAN'S DOG.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 555, 29 March 1876, Page 3

THE JUDGE AND THE CHINAMAN'S DOG.

The following amusing scene in a Court of Justice is solemnly recorded in a Liverpool paper:— Judge: Hwang Lee and Ah Wing, what do you say to the charge of disorderly conduct which has been brought against you ? Hwang Lee : Ah Wing, he lun away my dog. Ah Wing : Hwang Lee whalee Melican man calls damlire. Hwang Lee comes my laundly ; steale my dog, all likee ; Melican man damn thief. Judge : Is it not remarkable that these strange people, so far behind the civilised world in many respects, yet possess, in common with us, an affection for the lower animals ? I must discover to which of the prisoners the quadruped rightly belongs, and that, too, by means of a strategy once employed by a somewhat famous biblical predecessor. Officer Brown, bring the dog and a meat-axe into court. (Officer retires and returns with both). Judge (assuming a style of pronunciation meant to be clearly comprehensible to the prisoners) : Officer, comee, choppee doggee in twoee. Ah Wing takee halfee and Hwang Lee takee halfee. Understandee. After a painful silence, Ah Wing, with great calmness, remarked: Allee right, judge, so officer give me halfee got em dog's libs in him. Judge (triumphantly) : Affection has spoken in silence. Let Hwang Lee have the dog. Hwang Lee (lifting up the obese animal Avith a Celestial grin) : Ah Wing not havee dam bite. Hwang Lee eatee dog all up self. Judge (in deep disgust) : Five dollars or five days each. The court adjourned.