The English have many quaint customs, and this story concerns the quaintest I ever heard of. A man dined one day at a country inn, and the landlord asked how he had liked his meal.
'I have dined as well as any man in England,' he said.
'Except the mayor,' said the landlord.
'I except no one,' said the diner.
'But you must,' the host insisted.
They quarreled, and the diner was haled before the mayor who told him it was the custom of that town always to 'except the mayor' and fined him for not conforming. The man paid his fine and was leaving when he remarked:
'To my mind that landlord is the biggest fool in England - except the mayor.'
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