'I never seed no such things afore; and if he hadn't come I should have put it down again.' 'But you were trespassing,' said the Clerk.
'I didn't know it.

There wasn't no notice-board.' 'Now, Oby,' cried the head keeper, 'you know you've been along that lane this ten years.' 'That will do' (from the chairman); 'is there any more evidence ?' As none was forthcoming, the Bench turned a little aside and spoke in low tones.

The defendant's wife immediately set up a sobbing, varied occasionally by a shriek; the infant woke up and cried, and two or three women of the same party behind began to talk in excited tones about 'Shame.' The sentence was 2_l_.

and costs--an announcement that caused a perfect storm of howling and crying.
The defendant put his hands in his pockets with the complacent expression of a martyr.

'I must go to gaol a' spose; none of ourn ever went thur afore: a' spose _I_ must go.' 'Come,' said the Clerk, 'why, you or your brother bought a piece of land and a cottage not long ago,'-- then to the Bench, 'They're not real gipsies: he is a grandson of old Bottleton who had the tollgate; you recollect, Sir.' But the defendant declares he has no money; his friends shake their heads gloomily; and amid the shrieking of his wife and the crying of the child he is removed in the custody of two constables, to be presently conveyed to gaol.