A BALD-HEADED CAT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9756, 22 July 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)

A BALD-HEADED CAT.

A mbmbbb of the Hartford county bar, in relating some reminisoenoes of the oourt in times gone by, told of a case wherein one of the f amona advocates of that time had badgered aud crowded a witness until he lost hie temper. The witness incidentally said something about a oat, and the crafty lawyer seized upon this as the means of still farther worrying the witness. "How old was the cat?" aßked the attorney. " I don't know," was the answer. " How old do yoa think she was ?" ' "It was a to moat," " I didn't ask yon about the box of the cat. I asked how old it was."' " Yoa asked how old she was." " Well, how old was the cat ?" « I told yoa I didn't know." a Well, how old do yon think ?" " Oh, I can't tell." " Yoa can tell how old yoa think she was." ' ' "I tell you I don't know." "Now," said the attorney, "I want' a Slain answer to a plain question. How old o yoa think that ott was?" The witness looked straight at the attorney, whose shining bald-head was the most prominent feature of bis figure, and calmly eaid .* "Oh, I oan't guess how old the oat was, bat she was old enough to be baldheaded." The lawyer's ruddy face assumed a deeper hue, the spectators and members of' the bar tittered, and even the stern features of the court, relaxed into ' the smile at the answer which ended that 'jne of crosß-questioning.'