"Flax Bitters!"

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 284, 7 June 1897, Page 2

"Flax Bitters!"

o It frequently happens during the examination of witnesses in a Court of law, that counsel are apt to go a bit too far, and strike a snag. On Friday, a witness was under examination who in days of yore was supposed to be engaged in the manufacture of the subtle corn juice in some of the back blocks, far from the vulgar gaze of inquisitive excise officers. The name of which this mysterions beverage was known, was " Flax Bitters," and when the learned counsel gently insinuated that perhaps the name did not quite convey an idea aa to what its nature was, ho received a reproving glance from the witness. But heedless of this friendly warning, bi still pressed the point, and suggested divers dark and sinful sources from whence this spirit came. Again the witness mildly suggested that the subject was best left alone, but all his hints were lost upon the legal luminary, who evidently thought that be had the witness upon a spit, and wa* determined to baste him. At last, exasperated beyond all endurance by the gentle jibes of bis tormentor, he roared out at the top of his voice : " Well you made a pot of monoy out of them Flax Bitters anyway, so the less you say about them the better," and the whole Court, from the Judge to the Janitor, was convulsed with laughter at the discomforture of the tormentor. — Standard.