70 TRANSACTIONS OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
The following was one of his best. It was a horse case. Horse 
cases are difficult to deal with, and in the course of the trial a 
horsey-looking witness was put in the box. 
Counsel asked him what happened 1 
Witness. I ses, ses I, how about the hoss and he zaid he 'd 
give me ten shilling to zay nothing about un. 
Counsel. He did not say lie would give you ten shillings. 
Witness. Yes a did, that 's exactly what a did zay. 
Counsel. He could not have said "he," he must have spoken 
in the first person. 
Witness. No ; I was the first person that spoke. I ses, ses I, 
how about the hoss 1 
Counsel. But he did not speak in the third person. 
Witness. There was no third person present, only he and me. 
The Judge interposing. Listen to me, witness. He could not 
have said, " He would give you ten shillings to say nothing about 
it, but 'I' will give you ten shillings." 
Witness. — He zaid nothing about your Lordship. If a zaid 
anything about your Lordship I never heered un. And if there 
was a third person present I never zeed un. 
Point given up. 
He heard a witness asked, if the prisoner had been drinking'? 
The witness replied, that "he was a little as regards of liquor." 
" What do you mean by that ^ " 
"Torsticated." 
Another witness he heard asked, " How many glasses are there 
in a bottle of champagne 1 " 
"Aight for general; but when maister zays I must make un 
go zo var as I can, I gets thirteen out of un." 
Maister was present in court. 
Hicks heard many speeches at public meetings, and could speak 
well himself, generally in a humourous vein, as may be supposed. 
He remembered and re-produced speeches that were remarkable for 
being out of the common run. On the unveiling of a bust of a 
Cornish worthy at Truro, he heard a class-leader of the Methodist 
body, who had first suggested marble as better than clay for such 
a purpose, say as follows : 
"When I zeed your Honour a muddled in a nub of pipe clay, 
and your busk in plaster pallas in the image-maker's shop, I zays 
