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Show Up to This Time Judge Had Not Been Suspected A man was being tried in the local court for misappropriating a pig, and a conscientious witness, to whom the accused was said to have confided, was on the stand, being examined. "Now then, can you repeat the exact words in which the prisoner confessed to you to taking the pig?" asked the counsel. "He said, sir, that he took the pig," replied the witness. The judge tried to simplify the question: "Did the prisoner say, 'He took the pig,' or did he say, 'I took the pig'?" "Oh, no, your honor, he said that he took it. Your honor's name wasn't even mentioned." |