NIAGARA OF WORDS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 105, 7 May 1907, Page 2

NIAGARA OF WORDS.

' A litigant named Cliestnutt is deaf, but by no means dumb. In the county court of Exeter lie literally swept the Judge from the Bench by ah intolerable torrent' of words about some complicated grievance. ''Whoa! what!" repeatedly cried ithe learned' Judge as the man persisted in his address to the Bench. But the more the Judge cried ' •Whoa!" "tlie more the Devonian babbled on. : The ushers mildly protested, the public laughed, the 'legarpractitionei's wondered, and the Judge looked embarrassed. None could turn off the tap of Cliestnutt's. oratory. He , was '""deaf" to their entreaties. : The officers 'of the court waved their arms when they had exhausted the powers of tlleir lungs. But the deaf raan could neither hear his own voice nOr theirs. . . "Whoa!" cried the despairing Judge again, rising from his seat. But Cliestnutt ■ still held the floor,'' and the Judge saw only one course open to him . ' Grasping-the arms 01 his chair, h€r leant over to the reporters, delivered his judgment, and then hurriedly left the court. The spectacle of an empty bench had the desired effect. Cliestnutt stopped talking amid silence that could be felt.