A Play Upon Words


A POACHER was carried before a magistrate upon a charge of killing game

unlawfully in a nobleman's park, where he was caught in the fact. Being

asked what he had to say in his defence, and what proof he could bring

to support it, he replied, May it please your worship, I know and

confess that I was found in his lordship's park, as the witness has told

you, but I can bring the whole parish to prove that, for the last thirty

years, it has been my manner.



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