Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1897 — How Fast. [ARTICLE]

How Fast.

This sounds as if it came from the variety stage. But as a matter of fact, it is history, for occasionally funny things do happen in the courts besides the lawyers. It was in a negligence case recently and a good-humored Irishman was a witness. The Judge, lawyers and everybody else were trying their best to extract from the Irishman something about the speed of a train. “Was it going fast?” asked the Judge. “Aw, yis, it were,” answered the witness. “How fast?” “Oh, purty fasht, yer Honor.” “Well, how fast?” “Aw, purty fasht.” “Was it as fast as a man can run?” “Aw, yis,” said the Irishman, glad that the basis for an analogy' was supplied. “As fasht as two min kin run.” —Buffalo Enquirer.