'Now, Oby, what is your defence?
Have you got any witnesses ?' 'No; I ain't got no witnesses.

All as I did, I know I walked up the hedge to look for mushrooms.

I saw one of them things'-- meaning the wires on the table--'and I just stooped down to see what it was, 'cos I didn't know.

I never seed one afore; and I was just going to pick it up and look at it' (the magistrates glance at each other, and cannot suppress a smile at this profound innocence), 'when this fellow jumped out and frightened me.

I never seed no rabbit.' 'Why, you put the rabbit in your pocket,' interrupts the first witness.
'Never mind,' said the Clerk to the witness; 'let him go on.' 'That's all as I got to say,' continues the defendant.