Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1882 — He Forgot. [ARTICLE]

He Forgot.

“ Now,” saidtne Austin Justice to the witness, “ you will please tell precisely how it happened.” “ Yes, sir, I’ll try. The prisoner and that man were eating dinner at the same table, and they got to quarreling, when the prisoner just up withadab of mashed Irish potatoes and hit that other man on the head with it" •‘Do you, sir,” sail the Justice, sternly, “ pretend to tell the court that a dab of mashed potatoes, .even when thrown with the greatest violence, can make a gash five inches long on a man’s head, and knock him senseless ? If you trifle with the court you will be locked up.” “ Jndge, I reckon I forgot to say that when the prisoner threw the dab of mashed potatoes at the man, he forgot to first take the dab out of the dish.”— Texas Siftings.