| Show araie s waive of course certain classes of witnesses were only made to be trampled on no do honest lawyer would boast tor for instance ot of his triumphs over the clergy sergeant ballantine Ballant lne once appeared for the directors ol of some p pub ab alc lc gardens the renewal of whose 1 license I was opposed by a local vigilance committee their principal witness was a curate who d scribed bed with bated breath the scenes he had witnessed in the gardens lie he was asked to specify what sort ol of scenes amid an awe struck silence he related how bow ho he had bad actually seen young couples kissing hissing one another behind the bushes ballantine asked him it if he be had ever kissed a young lady the curate flushed red and appealed to the mag magistrate strate for protection when the bench refused to interfere he be stammered out only once and she was a sunday school te acter london telegraph |
