Positions Reversed.
The two cracks of the police cricket team were batting. Up came a slow ball, which the batsman punished severely, and ran accordingly. He got home comfortably before his wicket was knocked down, but was declared out. “ Why,” exclaimed the indignant limb of the law, “ I Was a yard past the wicket.” “ Maybe,” said the umpire, “ but it ain’t what you say, it’s what I say; and I say you’re out.” “ But ” began the irato P.C.
“ Now do you remember,” interrupted the umpire, “ saying to me about a month ago, ‘ Don’t argue with the law?’ Well, you was the law then, and I was run in." “Now,” he added, triumphantly, “ I’m the law, and you’re run out.”
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 9 July 1915, Page 3
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119Positions Reversed. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 9 July 1915, Page 3
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