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Show Witness Exerted Himself A Bit to Put It Nicely During the progress of a lawsuit, law-suit, a witness was cross-examined regarding the habits and character of the defendant. "Has Mr. M a reputation for being abnormally lazy?" asked counsel, briskly. "Well, sir, it's this way" ' "Will you kindly answer the question asked?" struck in the irascible lawyer. "Well, sir, I was going to say it's this way: I don't want to do the defendant an injustice, and I won't go so far as to say he's lazy exactly ; but if it required any voluntary vol-untary work on his part to digest his food, he'd die from lack of nourishment." |