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Show MORE THAN MATCH FOR LAWYER 1 John Phllpot Curran Worsted In En- I counter With Witness. 1 John Phllpot Curran, tho eminent Irish barrister and orator, onco mot fiis match In a pert, jolly, koen'Cyed Paddy, who acted as hostler at a largo -stable and who was up as witness In W a case of a horse-buying dispute. Curran much desired to break down tho credibility of this witness nnd thought to do it by making tho man contradict himself by tangling him up in a network of adroitly framed questions, ques-tions, but all to no avail. Tho hostler was a companion to Sam Woller. lib good common senso and his equanimity equanim-ity and good nature wore not to be overturned. By and by Curran, In towering wrath, belched forth, as not another counsel would have dared to do In the presence of the court: -fjj "Sirrah," you are Incorrigible! The truth Is not to bo got from you, for It is not in you. I seo tho villain in . your face." "I' faith, yer honor," said tho witness, wit-ness, with tho utmost simplicity of truth and honesty, "my face must be moighty clano and shinin' indade if it can roflcct llko that!" San Francisco Chronicle. I |