Debating for boys

DEBATING FOR BOYS
DEBATING FOR BOYS
BY WILLIAM HORTON FOSTER
New York STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY 1915
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Copyright, 1913 By THE PERRY MASON COMPANY
Copyright, 1913, 1914 By THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Copyright, 1915 By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published, August, 1915
The judge, in awful ermine, on the bench; the jury, glowering, in its box; the prisoner, the book, in the dock: enter in humility, the attorney for the defense, the preface.
“What excuse for existence has the prisoner?” thunders the judge in tones that make the culprit’s leaves shake.
In cringing deference, the attorney for the defense falters, “None, your lordship, none, but....”