“And did you see my client fire a shot?”

He knew, or thought he knew, what she would say

The lady witness answered she did not

Then, thinking of the oath they’d had her take

She thought to tell what she’d not told before:

“But just before I saw him turn and run

I saw him throw away a smoking”  “Stop!”

My learned friend then shouted “that will do!

You answered, now we’ll move to subjects new”

The witness knew that this could not be right

And knew that what she’d seen must come to light

“I’m moving nowhere till I right this wrong

If you won’t hear then justice is forsook

To tell the whole truth was the oath I took”

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