"Tell the jury whether you were at the Timber Creek camp-meeting on the 9th of August."
"Yes; I was."
"What did you see there? Tell about the shooting."
Dave told the story, with a little prompting in the way of questions from the lawyer, substantially as he had told it at the coroner's inquest. He related his parting from Lockwood, Tom's appearance on the scene, Tom's threatening speech, Lockwood's entreaty that Tom would not shoot him, and then Tom's shooting. In making these statements Dave looked at the stairway in the corner of the court-room with an air of entire indifference, and he even made one or two efforts to yawn, as though the case was a rather dull affair to him.
"How far away from Mason and Lockwood were you when the shooting took place?" asked the prosecutor.
"Twenty foot or more."
"What did Tom shoot with?"
"A pistol."
"What kind of a pistol?"
"One of the ole-fashion' sort—flint-lock, weth a ruther long barrel."