Nice Language
A MAN being tried for sheep-stealing, evidence was given that he had
been seen washing tripe. The counsel for the Crown, in examining the
witness, observed with ill-timed indelicacy, He was washing
bowels?--Yes, sir.--The bowels of an animal, I suppose?--Yes,
sir. The counsel sits down. Justice Maule: Pray, was it a wren's
stomach?