The Pedestrian Overzigged

A negro taxi-driver, charged with running a man down was told by the presiding judge that, when in danger of hitting some person, he should “zigzag his car.”

“I did zigzag your honour,” answered the negro, “but dat man was zigzagging too, an' he zigged so much faster dan I could zag dat it just nacherly give me swimmin' in the head, and dat's how I come to hit him.”

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