AN EMBARASSING WITNESS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1114, 5 June 1883, Page 3

AN EMBARASSING WITNESS.

Many stories are going the round* about the recently deceased judge, Mr Baron Mai tin, one of which is worth transcribing says the Home News. It may amuse some colonial bar mess. A witness who was giving evidence in the north country interspersed his remarks with so many ' Says I’ and ‘ Says he,’ that it was to understand him. Accordingly th* judge himself took the witness in band, and asked him to state exactly what had passed. 'I said 1 would not have the pig,’ repeated the witness. ‘ Well,’ said the judge, ‘and what was the answer?’ ‘He said he had been keeping the pig for me, and that he— ’ ‘ No, no,’ interposed tinjudge, I he could not have said that; hr spoke in the first person,’ ‘ No,’ my lord, I was the first person that spoke/ insisted the witness. ‘ I mean this ; don’t bring in a third person.’ ‘ There was no third person, ray lord, only him and me.’ The judge was growing irritated. ‘ Look here, my good fellow, he remarked ; ‘he did not say he had been keeping the pig.’ He said, *1 have been keeping it.’ ‘ I assure you, ray lord, there was n® mention of your lordship’s name. We’re on two different stories, my lord. There was no third person, and if ther* had been anything said about your lordship, I should have heard it.’ The judge could make nothing out of the witness, and the court was convulsed with laughter, in which he presently was obliged to join.