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 anxiety of mind, ‘ fine amusement! I have lost my shop—it used to stand somewhere near this spot.

During the last Assizes, in a case of assault and battery, where a stone had been thrown by the defendant, the following clear and conclusive evidence was drawn out of a Yorkshireman :—Did you see the defendant throw the stone ?—I saw a stone, and I’ze pretty sure the defendant throwed it.--Was it a large stone ?—I should say it war a largeish stone.—What was its size?—I should say sizeable stone.-—Can’t you answer definitely how big it was?—I should say it wur a stone of some bigness.— Can’t you give the jury some idea of the stone ?—Why, as near as I recollect, it wur something of a stone.—Can’t you compare it to some other object ?—Why, if I wur to compare it, so as to give some notion of the stone, I should say it wur as large as a lump of chalk.

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