When the driver of a squad car was out in the countryside covering a quiet beat, he was taken aback to see a former lieutenant on the police force patrolling the beat. He stopped the car and asked, 'Why, Johnny, this can't be your new beat out here in the sticks, is it?'
'That true,' Johnny replied grimly, 'ever since I arrested a judge on his way to a masquerade ball.'
'You mean you pinched his honor?' asked Pat.
Johnny asked, "How was I to know that his prison uniform was just a costume?"
' Well,' mused Pat, 'tis life, and there's a lesson in this somewhere.'
'That there is,' replied Johnny. 'You should never book a judge by his cover.'