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Show Lucky for the Prisoner. II While trying an old woman on a charge of stealing fagsots a judge I who had acquired the habit of think- II ing aloud unconsciously exclaimed: I II "Why, one faggot is as like another 'J I faggot as one egg is like another egg." J' I The counsel "defending the case .1 heard the observation and repeated It J to the ;iiry. when the judge cried: "Stop! It is an intervention or providence. This was the very thought that passed through mv mind, Gentlemen (addressing the Jury), acquit ac-quit the prisoner." London News. |