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Show Seventy Years Old. In one of the Jersey courts of Justice, Jus-tice, a pilsoncr wns nbout to bo put on trial for n serious offense. FIvo Jurors had been accepted. Tho clerk called out: "Dennis lllordan." A shriveled old Irishman responded: "Here!" The counsel for the defenso looked at him and said: "Challenged." Why? On nccount of age. "How old nro you?" the attorney asked. "Slv-nnty," "Slv-nnty," replied DennlB, In a wheezy-rqueaky wheezy-rqueaky voice. Tho venernblo Judgo asked- "My good man, when wcro you TO?" "Three years ngo, yer honor!" shouted Dennis In a voice that could he heard blocks away. "Excused," said the Judgo; and he had to rap for order. |