“Really this is intolerable. I want you to tell me what was the time at which your first meeting took place.”
“Wild thyme, I think; but I’m no botanist, you know.”
“Tut, tut! At what period of time was it?”
“It wasn’t a period of thyme, it was a bank of thyme.”
“Will you answer, sir? Give me the date of your first meeting.”
“We had no dates at our first meeting, only raisins; and we ate them all, so I cannot give you any.”
PUNY JUDGES.
“A fig for your dates and raisins! I wish I could get at the raison d’être of your answers. How can I put the question?”
“That’s just what I want to know. How can you put such stupid questions?”