AN ARMFUL

New Zealand Tablet, 23 October 1913, Page 62

AN ARMFUL

Judge Parry tells some county court stories in 'London Opinion, Here is on©: I mind well a'butcher who startled the court with a metaphor. The battle waged over the body of a sow purchased at a market meeting where she was not present. Her weight as stated by the farmer to the butcher was 35 stone; her weight as delivered by same to same was nearer 60 atone. . Warned by a solemn-faced advocate to speak up rand turn to his Honor, the butcher leaned across the front of the witness-box to the bench and said with warmth: - • ‘ I’ll leave it to your Honor or any other man. Supposing you, your Honor, were to meet a friend at the market, and he was to tell you that he had a sow up at his farm that would just suit you, and weighed about 35 stone, and it comes up to your door, and you goes out to look at it, and you see the sow weighs 60 stone. Well, what would you do V he asked in a tone of triumph. For the life of me" I had not the least idea what agricultural etiquette required of me On such occasions, so I told him to continue. ‘What would you do?’ he shouted, thumping the witness-box, ‘Why, of course, you’d refuse to embrace it at all.’ ~