Show A good cooil mentory Meni ory it often salil said the well known attorney as he smiled to hIm himself seir that a witness lines gets tho the best of a lawyer but I 1 remember on one that sot got the best of 0 me in a way that caused the shivers to run up and dlinn my back A good many m my years ago I 1 was retained upon a 11 alno 10 fence suit bult between two old farmers it had been in the tha courts for or ton ten years and bill bid fair to be there for ten more unless tho the parties became bankrupt in tile the meanwhile it was m my farst appearance barance in the matter I 1 having taken tho the place of ono one oi of the lawyers who nho died 1 I was very very young in tact fac I 1 it was my first case and I 1 felt my importance more than ban t I 1 do det now alter after thirty years of liard hard grind among tho the witnesses was waa an old oil farmer that I 1 knew personally having been born and brought up in t tho h a same neighborhood visa mas put on the stand to swear to some facts that happened ten years yeara back anil and athen hen he was turned over to me tor for cross croba I 1 proceeded to test the value of 0 ills memory dating so far back bach do you mean to say I 1 bocan began sternly that you can remember a more mere incident that happened ten years aero agot yes sir ahr he answered 1 then you mean to say bay that you c can an remember on a a certain day ten years ago aco that farmer dunn drove a black and vt hits cow into ills his back paa ture yes sir air I 1 kin he answered then perhaps said I 1 sarcastically IY you 0 ty can remember something else that happened ution upon that particular day yes I 1 kin ho he put in eagerly joe aft utter er I 1 saw farmer fanner dunn drive that thai cow of 0 ahlan into his back pasture I 1 auz con rj on through my apple orchard when n I 1 nim aw ye an two more kids stealing bleating apples when ye saw me comin ye tried to git bit away the other kids idda did but I 1 botched ye when yo yet kint alm a down the trunk of 0 the tha tree like a nash flesh my memory went batic bacic ten years to a very painful experience and I 1 tried to stop him film but he bo went on an I 1 took ye across my lap an aa g rave ave ye the all frankln that yo ever eve r had he concluded 1 I question liln film memory any fur further Lher detroit free frea press prem |