The Wind In The Willows When Toad In Court Room

“To my mind,” observed the Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates cheerfully, “the only difficulty that presents itself

This otherwise very clear case is, how we can possibly make it sufficiently hot

For the incorrigible rogue and hardened ruffian whom we see cowering in the dock before us.

Now, Let me see: he has been found guilty, on the clearest evidence, first, of stealing a valuable motor-car; secondly, of driving to the public danger; and, thirdly, of gross impertinence to the rural police.

Mr. Clerk, will you tell us, please, what is the very stiffest penalty we can impose for each of these offences? Without, of course, giving the prisoner the benefit of any doubt, because there isn’t any.

Some people would consider,” he observed, “that stealing the motor-car was the worst offence; and so it is.

But cheeking the police undoubtedly carries the severest penalty; and so it ought

Supposing you were to say twelve months for the theft, which is mild; and three years for the furious driving, which is lenient;

and fifteen years for the cheek, which was pretty bad sort of cheek, judging by what we’ve heard from the witness-box, even if you only believe one-tenth part of what you heard, and I never believe any more myself Your Honor

those figures, if added together correctly, tot up to nineteen years

“First-rate!” said the Judge
“—So you had better make it a round twenty years and be on the safe side,” Your Honor concluded the Clerk.

“An excellent suggestion!” said the Judge approvingly.

Prisoner! Pull yourself together and try and stand up straight.

It’s going to be twenty years for you this time. Mr. Toad

And mind, if you appear before us again, upon any charge whatever,

we shall have to deal with you very seriously!”

MR. TOAD: But I, I Didn't Do It Sir Your Honor, If You Forgot Wrong Justice Trial in the courtroom
CHAIRMAN THE JUDGE: Very Well Take Him Away!
MR. TOAD: No!, No!, No!, Please Wait, No! Wait, Wait!,