It is the only instance that I know of in modern times of
the repetition of the miracle of the widow's cruse.
Judge Thomas, then holding the Supreme Court at Worcester,
wanted very much indeed to go down with the Bar, but he thought
it would not quite do. The next morning, Mr. Bacon had to
try a libel for adultery between two parties living in the
town where the Bar had had their supper. He had had no chance
to see his witnesses, who got into town just as the Court
opened. So he had to put them on and examine them at a venture.
The first one he called was a grave-looking citizen. Mr.
Bacon asked him a good many questions, but could get no answer
which tended to help his case, and at last he said, with some
impatience: "Mr. Witness, can you tell me any single fact
which tends to show that his man has committed adultery?"
"Well, all I know about it, Squire Bacon," replied the witness,
"is that he's been seen at Charlie T.'s"--the inn where Bacon
had had his supper the night before. There was an immense
roar of laughter from the Bar, led by Judge Thomas, the ring
of whose laugh could have been heard half way across the square.
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