CORK LEGS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 321, 25 November 1880, Page 2

CORK LEGS.

Modern science has brought the cork leg to a state ofper lection which renders it almost impossible for the. .casual obseiver to detect the difference between the real apd the’ artificial. There “was an eminent sergeant-at Jaw some years ago ' wlio had n cork- leg that jyyas a triumph of artistic deception. Nonc but bis intimates knew fdr\*ertam-which was the rep.V and which- was the sham limb. A wild yonng* wag of the uoper bar,” who knew..life sergeant pretty well, once tnought utilise this knowledge of tlie sergeant’s secret to take, in ,a green, nowly-fledged young barrister. The sergeant was addressing a special jury at Westminister in his usual earnest and .vehement 'style, and the wag w his per ed to his -neigh hour—“ You see how hot old Buzfuz is over his case j now, I’ll bet .you a soveiyigu. I’ll run. this pin into his leg up to the head, and he’ll never notice .at, he’s ;so Absorbed in his case. This was more than the greenhorn could swallow, so he todk the bet. The wag drew a large pin from his waistcoat, . and, leaning forward, drove it up to the head, into the sergeant’s leg. A jell that froze the blood of all who heard it, that made the hair of the jury stand on end, ran through the Court. By, Jove ? it’s the wrong leg, and I’ve lost my money,”' exclaimed the dismayed and consciencestricken wag, quite regardless of thepain he had indicted upon the sergeant. .. ...