THE ART OF CROSS-EXAMINATION
Counsel. "In other words, you dressed up facts with fiction to make them more interesting?"
Witness. "Precisely."
Counsel. "When in this article you wrote that at the age of twelve you ran away with a circus, was that dressed up?"
Witness. "Yes, sir."
Counsel. "It was not true?"
Witness. "No, sir."
Counsel. "When you said that you continued with this circus for over a year, and went with it to Belgium, there was a particle of truth in that because you did, as a matter of fact, go to Belgium, but not with the circus as a public clown; is that the idea?"
Witness. "Yes, sir."
Counsel. "So there was some little truth mixed in at this point with the other matter?"
Witness. "Yes, sir."
Counsel. "When you wrote that you were introduced in Belgium, at the Hospital General, to Charcot, the celebrated Parisian hypnotist, was there some truth in that?"
Witness. "No, sir."
Counsel. "You knew that Charcot was one of the originators of hypnotism in France, didn't you?"
Witness. "I knew that he was one of the original hypnotists."
Counsel. "How did you come to state in the newspaper history of your life that you were introduced to
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