| Show the court smiled some years ago in a suit which turned on the tha state of 0 mind of 0 a lady who had been a member of a sisterhood tho the lato chief justice then mr coleridge was cross examining era mining a witness who gave evidence as to the plaintiffs behavior while iwhite au an inmate of tho the Ei sisters home among other things ishad it had boon been deposed that plaintiff had boon been guilty of a breach of discipline in eating cating a certain plate of strawberries mr coleridge eating strawberries really witness yes sir she was eating strawberries mr coleridge how shocking I 1 I 1 Wi witness it was forbidden sir mr air coleridge and add did you yon madam really consider there was uny auy harm in that witness no sir not cot in itself my any more than there was in ili eating au air apple but you know bir the mischief that came from that the court smiled and mr air coleridge seemed to loso lose tile the thread of his ideas for the moment household words |
