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Show ONE AT A TIME. 211 . Smith instantly overruled the points. Finally Brown read from Blackstone a case precisely similar to the one before the court. "What do I care for Blackstone, or any other lawyer," cried Smith. " I know the man stole the horse, and I have decided it-that's enough. lam Judge here, sir!" " Your Honor," replied Brown, " I know you have decided the case. I read the point merely to show you what a d-d old fool- "What's that!" interrupted the Court, springing to his feet in a frenzy of rage. "Blackstone was," calmly concluded the lawyer, resuming his seat. ONE AT A TIME. A politician, when canvassing the Territory, struck California Gulch, and expressed a desire to address the miners. Anxious to collect a crowd, a stand was improvised from a dry goods box, and it was placed in front of Aunt Betsy's, as she was familiarly called, who kept hotel at the mouth of the gulch. Upon this stand the politician took his position, and when the miners, who were scattered several miles along the gulch, returned from their day's work, he began his speech. A few minutes later he had an audience of several hundred. In the midst of a grand rhetorical flight a disturbance commenced on the edge of the crowd, and gradually spread, as the disturbing cause, which was a small donkey, pushed its way in. The speaker bravely endeavored to maintain himself against the increasing uproar, but in vain. The animal belonged to the landlady, and was accustomed to being fed at the hotel steps precisely at this hour. |