| Show SAVED DY A SHIRT A story of daffel webster websters about a man blau berned Ilar one ono evening at a convivial party daniel webster and other distinguished lawyers were pr present ebent and the conversation happened to turn on the legal profession when I 1 was a practitioner said mr webster thero there was but one man at the new N e bar ot of whom I 1 was afraid and that was old barnaby there were vere but few men who dared lared to enter the lists with him on oil one occasion barnaby was employed to defend the title to a piece of 0 land bought bya by a little mean cunning lawyer named bruce case was looked upon as rood good as lost when it was ascertained that barnaby was retained against him min tho rho suit sult came on for trial and barnaby found that bruce hail had worked hard and left no stone unturned to gain tho the victory tho tile testimony for the plain plaintiff tift was very strong and unless it could ue be impeached the case ease of 0 the defendant was as lost the principal witness introduced by the plain wore a red coat in summing up tor for the defense old bar commenced a furious attack on the witness tul pulling ling hl his testimony all to pieces and appealing to the jury it if a man who wore a red coat wunder stances to be bel believed it ved and who is this red coated witness I 1 exclaimed a Barn barnaby aloy but a descendant of our common enemy who has striven to take from us our liberty and would not hesitate now to deprive a any u y poor man ot of his land by making I 1 a any ny so sort artof of a radco red coated abed statement ll 11 during this speech brace bruce was walking up and down tho the bar greatly excited and aud convinced that his case wa was gone knowing as ho lie did the prejudice of the jury against anything british Britis lL while however barnaby was gesticulating and leaning forward to tho the jury in lisa ills eloquent appeal his shirt bosom bo som opened blight ly and bruce accidentally discovered that barnaby Darnaby wore a red undershirt braces Bru ces countenance brightened up putting both hands in his coat dockets ho he walked to the bar with great confidence to the astonishment of his client and all lookers on just as barnaby concluded bruce wl whis ds I 1 pared red in ili the car ear of his client ive got ot him hill your case is fafel and approaching the jury he lie commenced bis his reply to the slaughtering argument of hb adversary bruce gave a regular history of the ancestry of his hn red i ed coaled witness pro proving his patriotism and devotion to the country and hia his character rr truth and veracity 11 but what gentlemen of the jury broko broke forth brace bruce in a loud strain of eloquence while his eye hashed flashed ire fire what a are re you to expect of a man malt who stands he hero re to defend a cause ans based on oil no foundation of right or justice whatever of a man mail who undertakes to destroy our testimony on oil the ground that my witness wears a red coat when gentlemen of the jury when when gentlemen of the jury here liere bruce made a 1 spring a and nd catching barnaby bythe by the bosom of his shirt tore it open displaying ills red flannel when mr barnaby M himself wears a red flannel coat concealed under a blue one tho the effect was electrical barnaby was beaten at ili his own rame game and bruce gained tho the case green bag |
