Doctor (quietly, but hesitatingly). [It is very difficult for the inexperienced to distinguish right from left.] "This is the right leg."
Counsel (astonished). "What do you say, doctor?"
Doctor (much confused). "Pardon me, it is the left leg."
Counsel. "Were you not right the first time, doctor. Is it not in fact the right leg?"
Doctor. "I don't think so; no, it is the left leg."
Counsel (again stooping and bringing from under the table the bones of the foot attached together, and handing it to the doctor). "Please put the skeleton of the foot into the ankle joint of the bones you already have in your hand, and then tell me whether it is the right or left leg."
Doctor (confidently). "Yes, it is the left leg, as I said before."
Counsel (uproariously). "But, doctor, don't you see you have inserted the foot into the knee joint? Is that the way it is in life?"
The doctor, amid roars of laughter from the jury, in which the entire court room joined, hastily readjusted the bones and sat blushing to the roots of his hair. Counsel waited until the laughter had subsided, and then said quietly, "I think I will not trouble you further, doctor."