Carried the Day.
Two or three amusing anecdotes are told of x late ecceutrio but kind-hearted judge. He had acquired, among other inconvenient habits, a trick of thinking aloud) and one day, Chen tejifiK »jx old woman for stealing fag-
gots-, he unoonsiously ejaculated, "-Why, one faggot is as like another faggot as one egg is like another egg." Tho counsel defending the prisoner caught the aside, and naturally made a strong point of it in his defence. " Stop, stop," cried the judge ; " ifc is surely an intervention of Providence; this was the very thought that passed through my own mind. Gentlemen, acquit the prisoner."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2369, 27 July 1899, Page 63
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105Carried the Day. Otago Witness, Issue 2369, 27 July 1899, Page 63
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