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Show A Quandary. "Was that man drunk when you saw him?" asked Justice Clark of a cautious witness, concerning the prisoner pris-oner at the bar. "Well, I wouldn't swear to that, your honor," was the reply, "but he seemed to be in a quandary." "A quandary? What was his quandary?" quan-dary?" the justice inquired. "Well, sir, he was standing in a mud-hole, holding to a post, and wanting to go home. He knew that if he let go he'd fall in the mud, and if he didn't go home he'd catch cold; but he was still undecided when I left, and that was about two o'clock in the morning." Justice Clark fined the accused, and then his wlfo came in and found him, and paid the bill. She seemed to be a very business like woman, and had an air about her that gave the Ho to the testimony about accused wanting to go home. Fairhaven Herald. |