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Show Patrick Henry's Fee. It is said of Patrick Henry that during dur-ing his practice of law in the Virginia courts, and when he was familiarly addressed ad-dressed as "Governor," a man who had been arrested for stealing a hog, and who was out on bail, went to the governor gov-ernor to have him defend him. The governor said: "Did you walk away with that shoat?" "I don't like to say." "Out with it." "Yes. sir!" , "Have you got the carcass?" "Yes, sir." "You go home, you wretch; cut the pig lengthwise in half, and hang as much of it in my smoke house as you keep in yours." At court, the governor said: . "Your honor, this man has no more of that stolen shoat than I have." The man was cleared. Norman E. Mark's National Monthly. |