The Case of Kate 



recognize no right on the part of any 

 member of their body to try to limit 

 debate by moving the "previous ques- 

 tion." Neither will they consent to 

 the fixing in advance upon any hour 

 or time for taking a vote on the guilt 

 or innocence of the accused. They 

 just keep it up as long as they have 

 strength enough left in their bodies to 

 express their sentiments which are 

 obviously badly mixed and it is not 

 until we come to the death-bed evi- 

 dence of the last of the tribe that we 

 apparently get a decision; a verdict 

 which so far as I have been able to 

 make out is invariably against the 

 defendant. 



I have only the highest respect for 

 those scientists who can devote a life- 

 time to studying through a microscope 

 the eye of a butterfly or something 

 like that, and then write thick volumes 

 setting forth, with a devotion worthy 

 of any cause, and illustrated by in- 

 numerable color plates and careful 



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