r a brief remark from the counsel
for the prisoner. A son of the plaintiff, Welcome Bogle, was then
introduced to the stand, and testified that his father had owned a
log-chain with the initials of his name, "S. B." marked on one of the
hooks; and the chain in court being shown him, he said with audible and
honest emphasis, "Yes, that's the article." He was cross-examined,
with considerable tact and much severity by C. Fox Faddle, Esq.; but he
stood the trial with remarkable composure and consistency, making no
variation of the facts testified, although he gave them in different
connections and words.

'Becca Ann Teezle was next introduced. She had again and again
declared she was not afraid of a lawyer, and on this occasion her words
proved true. Without the slightest diffidence, but with a boldness
rather which encouraged the other witnesses, and with a toss of the
head that Lawyer Faddle did not like, she said, "she had been out in
the woods pasture picking blackberries, and saw Mr. Sculpin pass that
way from the direction of Mr. Bogle's barn, with a chain on his back."

When cross-examined, she stated that "it was slung over his right
shoulder, and under his left arm, and it was _not_ a trace chain, nor a
halter chain, nor a breast chain, as Mr. C. Fox Faddle endeavored to
have it appear, but a log-chain; yes, _sir_, a log chain, for I saw it
with my own eyes."

"Then you sometimes see with eyes not your own, do you, Miss Teezle?"
said Lawyer Faddle with a comical leer, and a peculiar pipe of that
killdeer voice.

"Yes, I take owl's eyes when I want to look at a lawyer."

"Why do you do that, Miss Teezle? what can owls see that you cannot see
with your _own_ eyes, Miss Teezle?" asked the lawyer, attempting to
turn the laugh back from himself upon her.

"They can see _low fowl_ creatures in the dark," replied the blooming
maiden.

"Enough of this," said the lawyer; "and if Miss Rebecca Ann saw these
things with her own eyes, can she name any circumstances? Did you
notice Mr. Sculpin very particularly? Did he seem confused and
agitated when you met him? or was he calm,--was he possessed?"

"He was _possessed_--at least of the chain."

"Indeed, Miss Teezle, and you are certain of this; and now can you tell
me if it was when you were going _after_ the berries, that you saw him;
or _after_ you had picked them, and had started _after_ home?"

"It was _after_ we had been _after_ the berries, and _after_ w