GAINING A VERDICT.
A Galveston mm met in the street a friend from the country. "How do you do?" exclaimed the friend. "When I last heard of you you had a lawsxn't on hand with Tom Smith ahout a horse. How did that end ?" "I won it, I completely got away with Tom. Ton see, the justice was the most honest man in the- world, so I wrote him a note asking him to accept the enclosed five-dollar bill." "J should think the would have ruled against you for trying to brihe him." "So he would, if I had not been careful to.oign Tom Smith's name instead of my ovyn. T tell you, thenare other ways of filling a dog thai: choking him."
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 123, Issue 123, 17 April 1895, Page 3
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123GAINING A VERDICT. Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 123, Issue 123, 17 April 1895, Page 3
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