“Well, put them in your pockets, can’t you?”
“Oh! oh! oh! My pockets are full! Oh! oh! oh! oh!”
Judge—“But why in the world did you go so far to steal wine, when you might easily have got it in your master’s cellar?”
Prisoner—“I knew my master’s wine too well to steal even one bottle of it.”
Allemansvriend.
Judge (to convicted thief)—“You seem to understand your business.”
Prisoner—“Yes, my lord, and if you could steal as well as I, you wouldn’t care to sit on the bench any longer.”
Vlaamsche Illustratie.