nt glass plate,
and on the other side he put a red roach. Now your Honors
both know how a pickerel loves a red roach, and I have no
doubt you will remember that he is a fish of a very low
forehead and an unlimited appetite. When this pickerel saw
the red roach through the glass, he made one of those awful
dashes which is usually the ruin of whatever stands in its
way; but he didn't reach the red roach. He received an
impression, doubtless. It was not sufficient, however, to
discourage him, and he immediately tried again, and he
continued to try for three-quarters of an hour. At the end
of three-quarters of an hour he seemed a little shaken and
discouraged, and stopped, and the red roach was taken out
for that day and the pickerel left. On the succeeding day
the red roach was restored, and the pickerel had forgotten
the impressions of the first day, and he repeated this
again. At the end of the second day the roach was taken out.
This was continued, not through so long a period as the
effort to take my friend Clarke and devour him, but for a
period of about three weeks. At the end of the three weeks,
the time during which the pickerel persisted each day had
been shortened and shortened, until it was at last
discovered that he didn't try at all. The plate glass was
then removed, and the pickerel and the red roach sailed
around together in perfect peace ever afterward. The
pickerel doubtless attributed to the roach all this shaking,
the rebuff which he had received. And that is about the
condition in which my brother Duncan and my friend Clarke
were at the end of this examination."

Mr. Duncan--"I notice on the redirect that Mr. Clarke
changed his color."

Mr. Lowrey--"Well, perhaps he was a different kind of a
roach then; but you didn't succeed in taking him.

"I beg your Honors to read the testimony of Mr. Clarke in
the light of the anecdote of the pickerel and the roach."

Owing to long-protracted delays incident to the taking of testimony and
preparation for trial, the argument before the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals was not had until the late spring of 1892, and its
decision in favor of the Edison Lamp patent was filed on October 4,
1892, MORE THAN TWELVE YEARS AFTER THE ISSUANCE OF THE PATENT ITSELF.

As the term of the patent had b