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Show Circumstantial Only. On the complaint of n farmer, old Ephraim had been haled into court charged with chicken shooting. His lawyer had made a fairly good case for him and for a clincher had tiie plaintiff recalled, hoping to make him contradict his own testimony. "See here," he said, scowling savagely, sav-agely, "will you swear that it was Kphraim who shot your chicken?" "Wal," said the farmer mildly, "I won't swear to it, but I suspect him." "That's not enough to convict a man. What makes you suspect htai?" "Wal, I saw him in the chicken yurd with a gun. then I heard the gun go off, and then I saw him putting the chicken into a bag and it didn't somelrow seem sensible to figger the bird committed suicide." American Legion Weekly. |