Concerning whistling on Sunday in Scotland, two men, who had
done a house-breaking job on Saturday night, went on Sunday
morning into a wood to divide the plunder. One of them began
to whistle over the sharing out when his companion said, with
horror: “Hoot, mon, I would no have come out wi’ ye if I had
known you would whustle on the Sawbath.” (Text.)
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When Justice Lovell, a Welsh judge, was traveling over the
sands at Beaumaris, while going his circuit about 1730, he
was overtaken at night by the tide, and the coach stuck in a
quicksand. The water rose in the coach, to the horror of the
registrar and other officers, who crept out of the windows
and scrambled on the top behind the coach-box. They urged his
lordship to do the same, but with great dignity and gravity
he sat till the water rose to his lips, and then he was just
able to exclaim, “I will follow your counsel if you can quote
to me any precedent for a judge mounting on a coach-box.” No
“authority” could be produced, owing to the darkness of the
night! (Text.)--CROAKE JAMES, “Curiosities of Law and
Lawyers.”
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