"'When the man cannot satisfactorily answer these clear and positive questions, I put him down first as a suspect. Then I proceed to further questions.
"'If he is said to have won a battle, I ask him why he fought it on land and not on sea? Or vice versâ.
"'Why he did not, while fighting the battle, accurately determine the degrees of longitude and latitude of the locality of the battle?
"'Or why his chief general's name began with an L and not with an S?
"'If he is said to have been an ancient legislator, I ask him why he took his laws from his neighbours?
"'What mode of registration and publication of the law he observed?
"'Whether the paper of his code was hand-made, or wood-pulp?
"'Whether the water-marks on it were original or were imitations?
"'Whether he used ink or paint?
"'Whether he wrote them standing or sitting?