PICKENS PUZZLE SOLYED,
IfETSY URIC TO AIRS GAM?
LONDON, December 3. Mr Justice Shearman has solved the Pickens puzzle he raised in the Divorce Court on Friday last. woman witness continually used tTie word “one” instead of “I”. “He never considered one at all, and considering one was unwell, one felt very seedy,’ she said. TKe judge remarked: ‘‘l was trying to recollect the character in Pickens who always talked like that,” Great. Pickensians were interviewed lnif not q?ie could call to mind the
character. Mr Justice Shearman when the case was resumed yesterday said: “I have teen trying to trace the origin of the riftrncter who spoke in that way. I find it occurs when Airs Gamp and Mrs Betsy Prig were having tea together and Betsy Prig said: “It was quite aggrawation enough to Be made late when one was dropping for one’s tea- without hearing on quotation will be found in “Martin Chnzzlewit,” Chapter 49.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1920, Page 3
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158PICKENS PUZZLE SOLYED, Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1920, Page 3
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