SUMMARY JUSTICE IN A MAGISTRATES' COURT
(Composed prior to 1971; no known manuscript; reconstructed from memory by Editor)[POLICEMAN] Your worship, the accused I passed
At ten p.m. on Friday last
And found him urinating down a grid.
[MAGISTRATE] This officer he said you peed
In public, and his mate agreed,
So all in all we rather think you did.
[ACCUSED] I must have had a drop to drink.
I really didn’t stop to think.
[MAGISTRATE] You ought’a!
The street is really not the place
For you to go and urinate
And so to teach you how to wait
We’re going to fine you thirty bob.
…Next case!
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