12 used for a jail, the stalls serving as cells for prisoners. Judge Benjamin Tappan presided over this rude frontier court. Many anecdotes were related of Tappan in that day, illustrating his sharp, pungent wit, which had peculiar force from his personal peculiarities, he being cross-eyed, with a pair of sharp black eyes, and talking through his nose in a whining, sing-song sort of style. We give the following as told by his brother-in-law, Judge Wright. The scene of the occurrence . is said to have been the court room in Leininger’s log tavern. “Two young lawyers having engaged in an- altercation, received a severe reprimand from the presiding Judge. A stalwart frontiersman, clad in a red flannel shirt, and standing among the auditors in the room, was delighted with the judic^T^ lecture from the legal bar and elevated in feeling from practice at the other bar. .He | expressed his appreciation by interrupting the judge, ’who was cross-eyed, by calling out “Give it to’em old gimlet eyes. ” “Whois that” asked the judge. “It's this oldhoss!” called the‘The New Comer'-s~Town' by—the responded the owner of the flannel shirt, -r < r w 1
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