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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