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designs ; for when Blue Jay, in the most elo- 
quent language, depicted to these wretches 
the sorrow and pain that their act had inflicted 
upon their neighbors, they listened to him, as 
he testifies, with heartless coldness, and fiercely 
thrust him from their presence with insults, 
even blows. 
Birds of the Jury, I will not attempt to 
describe the terrible effects of this blow upon 
the plaintiffs. You have all witnessed them, 
— have seen the settled melancholy which is 
upon them. They are now before you. Notice 
the wild and haggard look that their counte- 
nances have adopted. Many of us have seen 
the reckless manner in which they have ex- 
posed their lives, when visiting the gardens 
and orchards of the farmers ; and even courted 
the death that is almost inevitably found 
there ; their recklessness was but a sort of 
insanity, brought on by this most tremendous 
wrong. 
Birds of the Jury, it is reserved for you 
not only to restore the affection of the young 
Robin to its sorrow-stricken parents, but also 
