CONVINCING EVIDENCE.

A CERTAIN clergyman having been examined as a witness in the King's

Bench, the adverse counsel, by way of brow-beating, said, "If I be not

mistaken, you are known as the _bruising parson_." "I am," said the

divine, "and if you doubt it I will give it you _under my hand_."

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