" was the next question, "in your opinion is he a man who is likely
to have been guilty of stealing this money?"--"Well," said the witness
thoughtfully, "how much was it?"

In a County Sheriff Court his lordship addressed a witness: "You said
you drove a milk-cart, didn't you?" "No, sir, I didn't."--"Don't you
drive a milk-cart?" "No, sir."--"Ah! then what do you do, sir?"--"I
drive a horse."

A well-known lawyer not now in practice, who had risen from humble
parentage to be Procurator Fiscal of his county, once got a sharp retort
from a witness in Court. It was a case of law-burrows--well known in
Scotland--which requires a person to give security against doing
violence to another. A lady had assaulted a priest who in the discharge
of his duty had been visiting her husband--a member of his flock. The
lady was herself a Protestant, and suspected the reverend gentleman of
designs on her husband's property for behoof of his Church. The witness
in the box was prepared on every point, and the following dialogue
ensued--P.F.: "Who was your father?" Lady: "My father was a gentleman."
P.F.: "Yes, but who was he?" Lady: "He was a good man and much
respected, although he didn't make such a noise in the world as yours."
The P.F.'s father had been the town crier.

Perhaps it was to the same lawyer who asked the question of a labouring
man: "Are you the husband of the previous witness?" and got the answer:
"I dinna ken onything aboot the previous witness, but if it was Mrs.
----, a'm her man."

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The macer who calls the cases coming before the judges in Court was in
older days an interesting personality. Lord Cockburn recalls the time
when this duty was performed by the "crier" putting his head out of a
small window high up in the wall of the Parliament House and shouting
down to the counsel and agents assembled below him. Now it is performed
from a raised dais on the floor of the hall, and it is no joke when the
macer has to call in stentorian tones such a case as "Dampskibsselskabet
Danmary _v._ John Smith." Learned members of the Faculty approach such a
difficulty otherwise. During "motions" one day an astute counsel said,
"In number 11 of your lordship's roll." "What did you call it?" inquired
the judge. "I called it number 11," naively replied counsel. The case
was "Fiskiveidschlutafjelagid Island _v._ Standard Fishing Company."

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