A LEG OF LAMB.
Auckland, July 28.
“I aim reminded of the story of Charles Lamb,” said Mi'. Justice Herdmau in the Supreme Court today, when summing up in the case in which a man was charged with being unlawfully in a house at Mount Roskill by night. It had been pleaded on behalf of the accused that ho had entered the house as he was cold and hungry. Lamb had found a burglar in his pantry said his Honour, and that intruder had also said he was cold and hmrgry. Lamb thereupon applied his foot to a certain part of his intruder’s anatomy, saying: “Well here’s a leg of Lamb.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3672, 30 July 1927, Page 3
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111A LEG OF LAMB. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3672, 30 July 1927, Page 3
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