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3 or : . ' - for him. Like Mr. Perkins, he was much given to the use of h-sounding words, more effective from their sturning in- - eomprehensibility, than their particular applicability. When - case was in progress, he would have been scen seated before the Judge or Justice at his table, with a profound, solemn look, _ gusily writing, and completely barricaded behind a huge pice -_ 9f books. Had any suspicious eye been disposed # watch him, it would have noticed that the lawyer, when writing, rarely dotted an for crossed a ¢, and that at regular intervals he jammed his pen toward his inkstand, half the time without entering it, all - of which might have led one to doubt whether he was transcrib- iug any thing at all or not. Then, as something caught his ~) ~ear, he acl same abruptly, look up, clutch one of the books __ before him, a id.looking at the page bottom side up, wouid turn half the leaf fown, and pound it shut as though he had nailed an invaluabe point, and, contracting his eyebrows, level his restless orbs for a few moments upon the opposing counsel, as if he would aanihilate him. We further suspect that had those _ awe-inspir ag books which loaded his table been examined, not - more thav half would have been found relating to law or juris- at dence He rejoiced in the name of Scroggs. - The d: ¢ of the trial was clear, and so absorbed was the en- tire ville ge of Adrianopolis with the murder case, that nearly - all work was abandoned. Mr. Perkins dismissed school - jm order to attend the trial, it being generally suspected that *_ je was studying law on the sly, and wished to take notes of _ this ex‘raordinary case. Of course not one-half or one- gtarter of the villagers could be accommodated in the build diag set apart for the trial. The instant the door was opened 4hke crowd swarmed in and packed the room so densely tha the Justice, or “ Judge,” as he was more generally termed, _ being a pursy man, obtained his seat only by the united ef ze prs of several stout men, who shoved him forward by main erce, a In the sacred square in the center of the room was seated _ Mr. Seroggs, busily writing with a pen that had no ink in it, __. while ou the opposite side sat Mr. Perkins, the picture of un- __ Utterable knowlediee and attention. In the chair behind the Pu / o x 4. @ Hi ’ we, - a iI - desk were visible the head and shoulders of the Judge, who * ¥ed and brown silk con # handkerchief, and pufling like a __ porpoise, from the severe exertion he bad put forth to gain his It being understood that Dudley intended to conduct his own case, he was brought into the room, in order to chal- _ lenge thé jurors as they were selected. The only perceptible ; a, in his appearance was that he looked paler than Be His demeanor was calm and collected, and there was What axpression in his face which showed that he was fully _ Was coatinually mopping his massive forehead with a huge, My COMIC DOOKS.COnN ~ t- - OH gd Pe * 2 * > , ? a . 2 oe