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Show VIORE THAN MATCH FO LAWYER John Philpot Curran Worsted in En- counter With Witness. John Philpot "Surran, the eminent irish barrister and orator, once met his match in a pert, jolly, l;een-eyed Paddy, who acted as hostler at 'a large stable and who was up as witness in a case of a horse-buying dispute. Curran much desired to break down the credibility of this witness and thought to do it by making the man contradict himself by tangling him up 'In a network of adroitly framed ques-tk-s, but a'l to no avail. The hostler was a companion to Sam Woller. His good common sense and his equanimity equanim-ity and good nature were not to be overturned. By and by Curran, in towering wrath, belched forth, as not another counsel wou'd have dared to do in the presence of the court: "Sirrah," you are incorrigible! The truth is not to. be got from you, for it is not in you. 1 see the villain in your face." "V faith, ycr honor," said the witness, wit-ness, with the utmost simplicity of truth and honesty, "my face must be moighty clanc and shinin' indade if it can reflect like that!" San Francisco Chronicle. |