TAKING HIM DOWN.
A certain barrister named Jones who practised in Lord Brougham's time was in the habit of commencing the examination of a witness with these words : "Now. sir, I am going to put a question to you, and 1 don't care which way you answer it." Brougham, like many others, was growing tired of the monotonous formula, and one morning, meeting Jones near the Temple, he addressed him thus—"Now, Jones, I ,an going to put a question to you, and I don't care which way you answer it. How are you ?"
A physician in Portland, Me., estimated that 2,04S teaspoonfuls of tears, or two gallons in all, were shed in one night by the audience that heard Savage's "Madam Butterfly" in the city recently.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 393, 6 September 1911, Page 3
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126TAKING HIM DOWN. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 393, 6 September 1911, Page 3
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