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Show GOT EVEN WITH THE LAWYER. Farmer Turns the Tables on His Tormentor. This is a lawyer's story of his first trial, in which a farmer accused a neighbor of stealing his ducks. The lawyer was employed by the accused to convince the jury that such was not the case. The plaintiff was positive fiat his neighbor was guilty of the offense of-fense charged, because he had seen his ducks in the defendant's yard. "How do you know they were your ducks?" asked the lawyer. "I should know my ducks anywhere," replied the farmer, giving a description of their various peculiarities whereby he could distinguish distin-guish them. "Pshaw!" said the lawyer, law-yer, "these ducks cannot be of such a rare breed. I have seen some just ike them in my own yard." "That is not at all unlikely," admitted the farmer, farm-er, "for they are not the only ducks I have had stolen lately." |
