Willie was certainly right, but that's not exactly how (in Julius Cæsar) he put it.
"When the men went to the scale, the Welshman was found to be half-a-pound over the stipulated 8st., but he was allowed time to get this off, and just before three o'clock he passed the weight, while Ladbury weighed 7st. 14 1/4 lb."—Yorkshire Post.
Rather bad luck on the Welshman, who had been sprinting madly round the arena for some hours with eight ounces which nobody wanted, to find afterwards that Ladbury's extra four ounces were entirely ignored.
"Since tea the crowd had swelled considerably."
South African News.
An air of dough-nuts hangs over this sentence.
