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Representative Cantrill, of Ky., told the following
story the other day to illustrate a remark he had just
made concerning the force of necessity: Desiring to go
for a canter, Smith hired a horse and started off down
the pike. Before he had gone very far the animal’s
evil disposition manifested itself in a spell of wild
bucking with the result that Smith was thrown from
his seat, landing ungracefully in a heap by the road-
side.
The next day he met a friend who said smilingly:
Hello Smith. I saw you out riding a horse ves-
terday.”
That’s so?” replied Smith, wondering if he had
seen the climax of the performance.
\e s, Ins friend went on. smiling more broadly
than ever, what in the world made you drop down
so suddenly?”
“ Case of necessity,” Smith answered. “ Did you
see anything up where I was that a fellow could hold
onto?”
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A story is told of a trial for burglary in which one
of the jurymen seemed to be so certain of the prisoner’s
innocence, and pleaded for him so eloquently that the
11 others who had no particular leaning either way
allowed themselves to be argued into returning a ver-
diet of not guilty.” A few days later fresh facts
came to light, which proved the accused man’s inno-
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