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to a separate trial and to summon essential wit- 

 nesses at any cost with usual adjournments taken 

 in their absence. 



If the court please, I demand the dismissal of 

 the case on two points, the first of which is that 

 there is no evidence of guilt, or even serious mis- 

 demeanor against the defendants, and the second, 

 that the plaintiffs have not been made to put up 

 security for costs. 



I object, Your Honor, to excusing the plaintiffs 

 from the usual security for costs as it establishes 

 the dangerous principle of allowing the quarrel- 

 some and ignorant a free hand in jeopardizing the 

 liberty of any one so unfortunate as to incur their 

 displeasure, and they themselves escape all re- 

 sponsibility in the matter at issue. 



If the court please, we will proceed to examine 

 the allegations in the complaint against the Blue 

 Jay. Again, Your Honor, I ask the dismissal of 

 this case against the Jay on the ground that every- 

 thing in the complaint, from first to last is clearly 

 dictated by prejudice, based upon hearsay; ob- 

 servations of the blind and the silly drivel of the 

 uninformed, who babble to hear themselves bab- 

 ble. 



Gentlemen of the Jury, getting a single kernel 

 of wheat out of an overflowing bushel of chaff, 

 constituting an alleged complaint against my client, 

 let us proceed to examine the so far unproven 



