Counsel. "Frankly, doctor, don't you think this man hears remarkably well for his age, leaving out the deaf ear altogether?"
Doctor. "I think he does."
Counsel (keeping the ball rolling). "I don't think you have even the first symptoms of this 'traumatic microsis,' doctor."
Doctor (pleased). "I haven't got it at all."
Counsel. "You said Mr. Metts had had concussion of the brain. Has not every boy who has fallen over backward, when skating on the ice, and struck his head, also had what you physicians would call 'concussion of the brain'?"
Doctor. "Yes, sir."
Counsel. "But I understood you to say that this plaintiff had had, in addition, hæmorrhages of the brain. Do you mean to tell us that he could have had hæmorrhages of the brain and be alive to-day?"
Doctor. "They were microscopic hæmorrhages."
Counsel. "That is to say, one would have to take a microscope to find them?"