ABSTRACT
Judge Dread had had many disagreeable people before him, but this one, who styled himself ‘the Philosopher’, despite never having studied the subject, had really annoyed him. Dread said ‘I intend to teach you the value of honesty, prisoner. You have been found guilty of being a crook and a swindler and of repeatedly and systematically lying to the court to try to save your wretched skin. Well, justice has caught up with you now, my friend. The sentence of this court is …’(here the Judge pauses for effect and dons a pair of black gloves and a little black hat) ‘…that you be taken from here to a place of execution and hanged by the neck until you are dead.
