Odds add End

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42797, 26 October 1905, Page 4

Odds add End

In Court.—Tho following jJWTd of a Judge before whom amaiyWsbeing.', tried for stealing.the goldfwatch, of a| woman as she was entering a’bus, The man declared that the watch was his own, and that the'woman was mistaken in identifying it as hers. Snddenly the Judge asked Wheje is the key?” " ; J V The prisoner fumbled in his pockets, and said he must have left it at home. -' The Judge asked hiir if he wound the watch frequently with the key, and he said: “Yes,” Then a key was procured, watcftand . key were the prisoner, and' he was told to wind he watch, opened the case, but could not any place to use the key, because tnj| watch was a keyless one. ■ The sentence was five years. ■ - “I never argue with fools,” said > Crankleigh, “Because when they don’t agree with me I feel sorry for them,” replied the home-grown philosopher j “and when they do agree : with me I feel sorry for myself-” The Umpire Would Have Made One Bun.—“ Jimmy, how did you come to win dat cricket match?”,/!;“Th’ umpire had: to walk t’rough;; our street ter get home,” Small|Boy Cricket,.—Father : Well and how did you get on? —Small Boy ; Oh, I kept wicket and caught one out,. It came oft his |foot. —Father : Buc. | that wouldn’t be out.—Small Boy iM Oh, yes. it was. The umpire ;gave it out. Yousee, it hit him “ below the elbow.” ff