OF ALEXANDER- I4I 



grievous bodily harm." He employed Counsel 

 to defend him, and this Counsel was a very 

 smart man ; I myself saw and heard him get 

 two men off for stealing corn out of an 

 allotment ground, and also two men who had 

 stolen some cheese. All these cases were as 

 clear as the daylight, and it was only through 

 the slovenly police evidence, and the smartness 

 of the defending lawyer, that the accused men 

 got off. On the strength of these cases Alex- 

 ander employed this Counsel, whose name was 

 Ball. 



When our case came on all the witnesses 

 were ordered out of court. I was called first, 

 and when 1 stood in the witness box, Mr Ball 

 was just at my side, and before he began to 

 cross-examine me, he stuck an eyeglass, about 

 the size of a policeman's bull's-eye, in his eye. 

 Then he took it down, and then put it up again, 

 and so on ; every time he put up his eyeglass he 

 settled his tie and gave vent to an expressive : — 

 "Ahem!" After he had been playing these 

 games some little time I thought I would follow 

 suit, so I "speered " up to him and ruffling up 



