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Show Expert Testimony. There was not much to be gained from the witness on the stand, who seemed to have a wonderful faculty for holding his tongue, but the lawyer law-yer tried once more. "You say your boat picked up the accused at nine o'clock, or thereabouts," there-abouts," he said. "It has been stated that he jumped overboard nearly an hour before that time. Tell me, Captain Sampson, how he appeared to you when you picked him up. If you had been -required to give an opinion of him then, what would you have said?" "Well, I'll tell ye honest," said the captain, when he had disposed of a portentious yawn. "I sh'd-ve said he was one o' the wettest men, if not the wettest man, that ever I see!" Youth's Companion. |