No Offense

A boy waa once brought bef ore "Oíd Steady" Baker, the mayor of Folkestone, for stealing gooseberries. Baker turned over Burn's "Justice," but not being able to flnd the article he wanted in the book, which is alphabetically arranged, he lifted up his spectacles and addressed the culprit thus: "My lad, it's very lucky for you that, instead of stealing gooseberries, you were not brought here for stealing a goose. There is a statute against stealing geese, but I can't find anything about gooseberries in all Burn, so let the prisoner be discharged, for I suppose it is no oífense."'-