n early hour and the fun and frolic were kept up far into
the small hours of the night. Brother Bacon was the subject
of every speech and of every toast. He seemed to think it
was necessary for him to reply to every speaker and toast.
So he was kept on his legs a great part of the night. As
he sipped his modest tumbler of ale, Brother Dewey, who sat
next to him, would replenish it, when Mr. Bacon was not looking,
from a bottle of champagne. So at least two quart bottles
of champagne were passed into the unsuspecting Brother Bacon
through that single pint of beer. When we broke up, the host
came to ask us how we had enjoyed ourselves, and Mr. Bacon
told him he would like to know where he got his English ale,
which he thought was the best he had ever tasted in his life.
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.

Brother Bacon, though a modest and most kindly man, used to
think he had a monopoly of the abstruser knowledge in regard
to real property and real actions. It used sometimes to provoke
him when he found a competent antagonist in cases involving
such questions. There was a suit in which Bacon was for the
demandant where a creditor had undertaken to levy an execution
of property standing in a wife's name but claimed to have
been conveyed to her in trust for the husband on consideration
paid by him. In such cases, un