"I'll just ask the Captain a few questions for the defense," said Lieut. Bowersox. "How did you know that the prisoner was drunk?"
"How did I know it? How does any man know that another is drunk? He was boisterous, excited and yelling—that kind of a drunk."
"But that does not prove that he was drunk. That may be his way of doing his work. Did you see him drink?"
"No."
"Did you ever see him before?"
"Yes."
"How was he acting then?"
"I shall have to say that he was boisterous and yelling then, but not so wildly excited."
"Then it was only a difference in degree, not kind. Was he not accomplishing what he was ordered to do?"
"Yes, he certainly did bring that limber out of the gulch."