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Show Time' to Call a Halt. The monthly assizes were in progress prog-ress at the mining camp of Howling Wolf, and the courthouse was crowded crowd-ed with a motley throng, who took a deep, if somewhat noisy, interest in all the proceedings. The uproar got worse and worse, and at last the judge could bear It no longer. An Imposing figure, he arose to his feet and bellowed out: "Gentlemen, and also prisoners, I must Insist on order in the courthouse. court-house. Here I'Te tried four cases already al-ready and haven't been able to hear a single word of the evidence." |