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"How could you not have said it?" "Oh I am not acquainted with the law. I don't know what gentlemen give. I dont know anything. {sc|I don't know what is given}}. I don't know anything about it."
"Have you not said to Sly that you were employed to fish out evidence?" "I might have said I was going after a fellow-servant."
"I give you the very words: did you not say you were employed to fish for evidence 1" "I might have said I was going after a witness for Mr Norton."
"I will have my words answered, if you please." "I do not think I said, to fish up all the evidence. I might have said I was employed to go after my fellow-servants."
"You have said you sometimes went a-fishing. Probably this was the kind of fishing you liked best?" "I did not say I was employed to fish up the evidence. I deny the expression. I say, I might say I was going after my fellow-servant as a witness."
"Might you not have said you were employed to fish up evidence, although you do not recollect it?" "No, I do not recollect it."
"But you might have said so? " "I might have said so; but I do not think I have said so."
"Did you not say to Sly, that you had been suffering a good deal of late years, and that you thought this matter would make you amends?" "No; I only said I had been out of place two years. I was obliged to work at mending shoes. Of course a man must work if he means to get a bit of bread. I always did work, and very laboriously too."
"Well, did you say you had been out of place, and that this matter would make amends to you?" "No. I might have done; but I do not recollect saying so."
"But you might have done it?" "I do not recollect saying so. "What I recollect I will answer, and what I don't recollect I cannot answer."
"Will you swear that you did not say to Sly, that this business would make you amends?" "I cannot swear that I did not say so, and cannot swear that I did. The fact is, about making amends, I do not understand at all myself, what amends a man can have for speaking the truth."
"Did you not say to Sly, that you intended to take care of yourself?" "To take care of myself! I hope I shall always take care of myself" (laughter).
"Very well. Therefore it is not unlikely you did say you intended to take care of yourself?" "If I had not looked more to others than to myself, I should not be so badly off."
"Did not you say, that most likely you would be able to leave London, and retire to the country after this trial?" "No."
"No, upon your oath?"I have already said, I cannot say I said so, since I do not recollect that I ever said so."
By the Court: " You were asked if you did not say you would most probably be able to retire to the country after this trial?" "I do not recollect, and how can I say what I do not recollect?"
