Punch (with some symptoms of alarm). My dear sir, I beg you one thousand pardons: very sorry.

J. Ketch. Aye, you’ll be sorry enough before I’ve done with you. Don’t you know me?

Punch. Oh, sir, I know you very well, and I hope you very well, and Mrs. Ketch very well.

J. Ketch. Mr. Punch, you’re a very bad man. Why did you kill Mrs. Punch?

Punch. In self-defence.

J. Ketch. That won’t do.

Punch. She wanted to kill me.

J. Ketch. How?

Punch. With a stick.

J. Ketch. That’s all gammon. You must come to prison; my name’s Ketch.