"The moon is up, isn't it, darling?"
"Yes," I heard him reply, languidly; "that is, if I swallowed it."
It isn't often that a shrewd lawyer gets two set-backs on the same day.
Yet I once witnessed such a thing.
It was in a Western city—never mind the name.
This lawyer was cross-examining a woman who it seemed was the spouse of a burglar of considerable notoriety.
It was his intention to shatter her testimony, and he went about it in the usual browbeating way.
"Madam, you are the wife of this man?"
"Yes."