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The Various Delegation A Harmless Visitor The No Case A STATESMAN who had been indicted by an unfeeling Grand Jury was arrested by a Sheriff and thrown into jail. As this was abhorrent to his fine spiritual nature, he sent for the District Attorney and asked that the case against him be dismissed. “Upon what grounds?” asked the District Attorney. “Lack of evidence to convict,” replied the accused. “Do you happen to have the lack with you?” the official asked. “I should like to see it.” “With pleasure,” said the other; “here it is.” So saying he handed the other a check, which the District Attorney carefully examined, and then pronounced it the most complete absence of both proof and presumption that he had ever seen. He said it would acquit the oldest man in the world. Contents The Various Delegation A Harmless Visitor

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The No Case A STATESMAN who had been indicted by an unfeeling Grand Jury was arrested by a Sheriff and thrown into jail. As this was abhorrent to his fine spiritual nature, he sent for the District Attorney and asked that the case against him be dismissed. “Upon what grounds?” asked the District Attorney. “Lack of evidence to convict,” replied the accused. “Do you happen to have the lack with you?” the official asked. “I should like to see it.” “With pleasure,” said the other; “here it is.” So saying he handed the other a check, which the District Attorney carefully examined, and then pronounced it the most complete absence of both proof and presumption that he had ever seen. He said it would acquit the oldest man in the world.

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The No Case

A STATESMAN who had been indicted by an unfeeling Grand Jury was arrested by a Sheriff and thrown into jail. As this was abhorrent to his fine spiritual nature, he sent for the District Attorney and asked that the case against him be dismissed.

“Upon what grounds?” asked the District Attorney.

“Lack of evidence to convict,” replied the accused.

“Do you happen to have the lack with you?” the official asked. “I should like to see it.”

“With pleasure,” said the other; “here it is.”

So saying he handed the other a check, which the District Attorney carefully examined, and then pronounced it the most complete absence of both proof and presumption that he had ever seen. He said it would acquit the oldest man in the world.

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Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Judge and the Rash Act

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