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Postscript
Autres Temps . . .
Gregory Stevens Cox’s
Social Life in Georgian Guernsey reports how Pierre Falla, a jurat 1777–99,
regularly would visit the Guernsey Lily
public house on his way to court, saying to the landlady “Pas trop d’eau Mrs Deakin, m’en
vais au cour” [“Not too much water Mrs Deakin, I’m on my
way to court”]. Once—
“On a hot summer day during a long trial Falla
was overtaken by slumber. When he awoke and was asked for his verdict he
exclaimed ‘qu’on le pende’
[Hang him!]. The chief magistrate exclaimed, ‘mais Mons Falla, il s’agit d’un pré’ [but
Mons Falla, it’s about a meadow!]. ‘Eh bien, qu’on le fauche, qu’on le fauche’ [well
mow it, mow it].”[1]
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