Show NOT A RELIABLE TIMEPIECE J farmers admission not so damaging as opposition lawyer had thought it to be A horse horsa had been stolen from a field and the evidence all pointed to a certain doubtful cha character acter of tho the neighborhood as the culprit at the tha trial the defendants counsel tried to confuse a farmer fanner whose testimony was particularly damaging you say bay the lawyer asked that you can swear to to having seen this man drive a horse past your farm on the day in question 1 I can replied the witness wearily that what time was waa this 1 I told you etwas it was about the middle of the afternoon but I 1 dont want any or middles I 1 want the exact time why said the farmer 1 I dont always carry a gold watch with me when im digging potatoes but you have a clackin Clock In alg the b house aus 11 vent you yes well what time was it by that why just nineteen minutes past ten you were in the field all the morning went on the lawyer smiling suggestively ge go 1 I was how far from the house Is this thin field about halt half a mile you swear sear do you that by the clock in your house it was exactly nineteen minutes past ten 1 I do lawyer triumphantly I 1 think that will do farmer I 1 ought perhaps to say that too much reliance should not be placed upon that clock as it got out of gear about six months ago and its been nineteen minutes past ten ever since |