It was an andante in F minor, you know, and--" "That'll do, that'll do, Dicky.

We've heard that before," interrupted the judge.

"Score him down half a lie, Nigger, and call up Johnny." "`King John, surnamed Lackland, was a wicked king.

He was forced to yield to the barons, and he lost all his clothes in the Wash.'" "Well, I never!" said John, foaming with rage; "if that isn't the coolest bit of lying I ever heard! Here have I been and worn my fingers to the bone writing Magna Charta and giving England all her liberties, and he never once mentions it! My lord and gentlemen, I should like to read you the document I hold in my hand, in order that you may judge--" "What, eh?
Read that thing ?" exclaimed Henry the Eighth, in horror.
"You'd better try it on, that's all.

Good gracious me, what next?
I've a good mind to commit you for contempt of court.