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Q. Do you think it is likely you would, or not? A. I think it is likely 

 I should. 



Q. Well, then, what made you say you could recollect from one min- 

 ute to another, but not thirty years ago ? A. Because I could recollect 

 from one minute to another better than thirty years ago. 



Q. I asked you how you recollected the number of barrels, and you 

 said you could recollect from one minute to another, but could not recol- 

 lect thirty years. What was the point of that? A. You just asked me, 

 and I said I could recollect it. 



Q. Do you say you can or that you cannot recollect what happened 

 thirty years ago ? A. I can recollect some things. 



Q. Bat as a rule you cannot? A. Other things I could not recollect. 



Q. What things ? A. I can't tell you what things. 



Q. Could you recollect the number of barrels you took thirty years 

 ago? Well, no, I could not. That is too long ago to recollect the num- 

 ber of barrels. 



Q. Could you recollect the number you took twenty years ago f A. 

 Well, yes, I think I could. 



Q. You might recollect the number twenty years ago, but the number 

 thirty years ago is out of the question. You could not recollect that. 

 Is that so? A. I could not recollect. I can't recollect everything twenty 

 or thirty years ago. 



Q. Would you be able to recollect rightly the number of barrels you 

 took in a vessel twenty years ago ? A. Yes; I should be likely to, of 

 course. 



Q. Could you twenty-five years ago ? A. I don't know. 



Q. Thirty years ago, you say you could not? A. I did not say that. 

 I said I might, or I might not. 



Q. Did you not tell me you could not ? A. I did not tell you so. 



Q. Did not I ask you, among other things, whether you could recol- 

 lect the number of barrels you took thirty years ago, and did not you 

 say no, you could not ? A. I say there are some things I could recol- 

 lect and some things I could not. 



Q. You say now there are some things you could not recollect. Did 

 not you tell me you could not recollect the number of barrels you took 

 thirty years ago ? If you are wrong, say so. A. I say I cannot recol- 

 lect. 



Q. Now, you say you can't recollect what took place thirty years ago, 

 and you have some doubts whether you can recollect what took place 

 twenty years ago. Among other things, you have stated that you took 

 180 barrels in 1847, which happens to be thirty years ago, just the 

 period as to which you swear now that you cannot recollect. You see, 

 that is very curious. A. Well, I told you there might be some things I 

 could recollect and some I could not. 



Q. You have outrun your memory ten years. In point of fact, this 

 must have been 1857 you refer to, as your memory does not run back 

 beyond twenty years. You still stick to the statement that in 1847, 

 thirty years ago the very time as to which you say you cannot recol- 

 lect, you got 180 barrels? A. Yes. Well, there are a good many 

 things, as I told you, that happened thirty years ago that I could not 

 recollect. 



Q. 1 asked you distinctly to tell me whether you could remember the 

 number of barrels you took thirty years ago, and to correct yourself, if 

 you were wrong, and you persisted in saying that you could' not recol- 

 lect how many barrels you took thirty years ago, although you would 



