Legal perseverance, with all its wondrous ingenuity, is not always successful in eliciting the desired answer. "Was v there anything in the glass l" ashed counsel of a somewhat reluctant witness. "Well, there was something in it,' : he replied. "Ah, I thought we should gee at it in time !" observed the triumphant questioner. " Now, my good fellow, tell us what the something was." Tiie "good fellow " took time to think over it ;°and at last lie drawled out, "It were a spoon/'
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Kumara Times, Issue 994, 6 December 1879, Page 2
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