The “Stronger-motive.”

It was the young barrister's first case and he was bubbling over with pride and enthusiasm as he stood in Court.

“Now,” said he, addressing the defendant, “you say you came from Auckland to Wellington merely to look for work? I put it to you there was another, a stronger, motive that brought you all this distance?”

“Well,” hesitated the defendant, “there was—” “Ah!” cried the barrister, triumphantly. “And what was it?” “A locomotive.”

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Teacher: “What do they call the instrument the French use for beheading people?”

Bobby: “The Gillette, I think.”

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