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it was watered milk. The distinguished defendant who has ap- 

 peared here as the champion for all the milk dealers because 

 this is their preferred case, I did not select it he knew, he read 

 the scale on' the lactometer, and he did not attempt to deny it. 

 His skillful counsel drew from him all that was proper for the 

 case. There was to be no mistake ; there was no confusion, no 

 lack of skill or ingenuity in getting all from this gentleman that 

 could be got. Therefore his counsel was careful, and asked 

 questions carefully modified. " Did you put any water in your 

 milk?" "No." "Did your son?" "No." Not a question 

 put such as did you know whether it was watered or not ? There 

 has been a singular transformation in this man. I do not know 

 what it is owing to. I presume the man who, on the 25th of 

 August, sold this milk must necessarily be a different man from 

 the distinguished individual that comes here and swears as to the 

 standard of milk and the use of the lactometer. He came here 

 the other day, and plead at the bar, before this case began, and 

 said "not guilty" He said that he was not guilty of knowingly 

 offering for sale adulterated or watered milk. But he changed 

 his tune ; he woke up within two or three days, and as he looked 

 in the glass he beheld Schrumpf, no longer a milk dealer, but 

 "the champion representative of the Milk Dealers' Association." 

 " Schrumpf ! " he said to himself, " you said you did not know, 

 you who know everything, and to whom these scientific men are 

 but infants ; but when you come on the stand can you say you 

 did not know the reading of the lactometer ? Have you not seen 

 it before ? You know all about it." He talked English then and 

 with the Inspector, but on the stand he could only speak Ger- 

 man. When the standard of milk of the black cow and the 

 bob-tailed cow is mentioned and proven, see the effect on him. 

 He is changed. Then he knew both English and German ; now 

 he knows only German. A week ago he did not know that his 

 was watered milk; but now he finds that he knew it all the 

 time. From such effects save us. 



Now we leave this man to suffer the just consequences of an 

 offence prohibited by law. I think you will say it is a salutary 

 law, as the learned counsel for the defence has already admitted 





