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234 My solicitor says I shall have to buck myself up if I am to reduce the damages to any reasonable amount, and that he had been desirous from the first to brief. But this is to croak like a raven, for the cross-examining is, after all, of very minor importance compared to the Gift of the Gab—in which I am notoriously nulli secundus.

2.15 —The Court has returned. Junior has called mother, whom I shall presently have the bounden but rather painful duty to cross-examine sharply. Already I experience serious sinkings in stomach department. Sursum corda! I must buck it up.