AND EVERYBODY LAUGHED
A Swede was being examined in a case in court. The defendant was accused of breaking a plate-glass window with a stone. The Swede was pressed to tell how big the stone was, but he could not explain. ‘Was it as big as my fist?’ asked the nervous magistrate, who had taken over the examination for the lawyers in the hope of getting some results. ‘ It tvas bigger,’ the Swede replied. ‘ Was it as big as my two fists?’ ‘ It was bigger.’ ‘Was it as big as my head?’ lt was about as long, but not so thick !’. replied the Swede, amid the laughter of the court.
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New Zealand Tablet, 26 June 1913, Page 62
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110AND EVERYBODY LAUGHED New Zealand Tablet, 26 June 1913, Page 62
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