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Show PUT SQUIRE IN A DAD LIGHT. Clrcumttintlal Evidence In Raid on a Melon Patch. About forty )eara ago "Hqulro Worcester nf Townsend, )lata, had n law office at flrolon Junetkm, now Ax-r, and wenl hark and forth each day uiwn Ihe train One morning aa ho waa mi his wn) to Ihe alallon he waa nrcmtled by a lielghlHir, Ilea I'cckhnm. who wanteil eome mltlm alHHit catching the ")onng rascals' who were stealing his melons "(let Mime evidence.' aald Ihe squire, "and I II see )ou again M Tho next morning the aqulro waa ngntn accosted by tho deacon, who asked hlni to lane n look at tho melon patrh. Now, the aqulro waa afflicted with n lameness that compelled him to wear n boot having an Iron halt circle on tho sole, and Judge of till astonishment to And the sett earth In the deacon'a melon alch completely trucked over with Imprlnla of that "Iron loot " "Well,' laid Ihe squlie, aa he alart oil for tlie station ' circumstantial ovl dene, purely circumstantial ' I'rrhaps Iho aqulro'a son. "Joe," ai ho wna tlxn called (I think lie la now a practicing lawyer), could havo ex plained the matter If he had not been In fear that tho aamo "circumstantial "circum-stantial ntlilence" might Interfere with hli sitting duwn comfortably at auppcr lime lloston Herald |