APPLE DUMPLINGS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3366, 4 November 1911, Page 4

APPLE DUMPLINGS.

NEIGHBOR’S RIGHT TO MAKE PUDDINGS OF FRUIT FROM OVERHANGING BOUGH. The “language of the old gentleman next, door” sent a woman complaining to the Tottenham magistrate. The Magistrate: Why does he use such language ?-—The Applicant: He has some apple trees. I see, and you have some boys' I —No, but one tree hangs over our garden. Some of the apples fall, in our garden. I have picked them up and made apple dumplings. “And the old gentleman smells the dumplings, I suppose,” said r.-ie magistrate, “and is annoyed because he cannot make as good use of his apples as you make of yours.” The Clerk: You are entitled to the apples that fall in your garden. The Magistrate: And you can go on making dumplings, no matter how much the old gentleman’s mouth waters. Come again if the old gentleman swears. The comedy of the situation was enhanced when on Thursday the owner of the apple trees arrived at the court to give a different version. He said that his trees were damaged. The people did not wait for the fruit to drop, but stood on the fence and “walloped” at them. The Magistrate: They don’t go in your garden? The Applicant: No; neither do the apples. They have also insulted me. and have threatened to kill me. A summons for threatening an I allusive language was granted.