A Dissatisfied Witness

She was a farmer's wife, and, as she took the witness stand in a case before Juetico Brown, she had her hands clenched, her lips compressed, and the fire in her eye was evidence that she was butning to teil tlie trath. " Well, teil the jury what you know about this case," said the lawyer. She moved around a little, looked the jury square in tho face, and, getting a good hold of the witness box, she began: " I was out to the barn to ask my husband it he thought it was goiiig to rain, and he said he guessed not, and I said I guensed not, when three or four men came. They were jawing and sweariog, and Halmost made my blood run " " ïiever mimi all that," interrupted the lawyer. "Did yon seo any one strike a blow ?" " I guess I did see somo one strike a blow, and three or four of thein, and I was never so frightened in my life, and I wonder I didn't faint away, and I think this man they eall Robinson was the one who struck flrst, and I'm al most Bure of it, and il I'd been a man I'd have " " Do jou swear that Robinson struck the first blow ?" "Yes, sir, 1 swear that I think Robinson struck the first blow, though I may be mistaken, of course, and of oourse I don't want to swear to a lie for no one, and I was excited and I don't know but some one may have hit him with an ear of rom and - " "That will do," said the lawyer. "Why - why, I haven 't hardly commenced yet," she protested. " Wei), I've gotall I want of such testimony. " "I say it's a mean trick to bring me into town over 'leveu miles of mud road and then not let me swear !" she exolaimed as she stt'pped dowD. "I guess I'm jnst as good ah some other folks out my way, and I guess I've got just as good au education for swearing in court, even if we haven't got upholstered chairs iu the liouse I" - Detroit Free Prese.