AT a late term of the Court of Sessions a man was brought up by a
farmer, accused of stealing some ducks.
"How do you know they are your ducks?" asked the defendant's counsel.
"Oh, I should know them _any_ where," replied the farmer; and he went on
to describe their different peculiarities.
"Why," said the prisoner's counsel, "those ducks can't be such a rare
breed; I have some very like them in my own yard."
"That's not unlikely, Sir," replied the farmer; "they are not the _only_
ducks I have had stolen lately!"
"Call the _next_ witness!"