Commodus or Caligula, a Russian Ivan the Terrible, a Spanish Pedro the Cruel, or a Zulu Chaaka — creatures drunk with blood and intoxicated with suffering, before whose eyes nature is bathed in crimson light. Had Cream been born a few centuries
earlier, and placed in a position of power, he would have been as one of these. If there be aught of truth in theosophical the ories, then perchance the soul of one of these vampires suffered re-incarnation in him.
Mccarty won his case. CORNELIUS B. PALMER. YOU could hear the rush and roar, Coming out the Court House door, When the verdict had been rendered by the jury. The. At The To Each In the their stop Justice tipstaff one scramble the head sought rapped boys was they and unable the inbore his their the foremost table, McCarty, race hilarious
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Then straight down the village street, With a steady tramp of feet On their shoulders bore McCarty, to the inn; For the crowd it was immense, The excitement was intense, And complacently McCarty heard the din; With a calm unruffled face, He gazed around the place, After that wild and hurried race, For McCarty won his case.
For McCarty won his case. It was a hard fought battle, About a mortgaged chattel, — A black horse, owned by Ebenezer Morrill. By astute explanation On cross examination, A witness swore the mortgaged horse was sorrel. By the jury in an ace, (For they did not leave their place) The plaintiff was non-suited, And McCarty won his case.
And now, even till this day, So the oldest people say, As they sit around their hearthstone in the eve, Of all our legal glory, A Marshall, Kent, or Story, Jack McCarty was the greatest, they be lieve; In that celebrated case, In Re Morrill versus Mace, His astuteness they will trace, How McCarty won his case.
