“About half a dozen times.”
“Seven times?”
“I can’t say.”
“Three times?”
“More than three times.”
“More than twice you will swear to?”
“Yes.”
“Now, I wish you to be very careful, please: can you state, under oath, that you have seen him drunk four times?”
“Yes,” said the policeman, “I can swear to that.”
“Very good,” said the counsel, with the air of having caught the witness tripping. “That is all.”