But a junion counsel for the crown, retained probably merely to give encouragement to a novice, thinking he had discovered an opportunity to display his abilities in the manner they deserved, or moved, perhaps, with a waggish though ill-timed desire to smoke the talkative old gentleman, whose smokability had appeared so plainly in the coure of his harangue, now undertook to cross-question the elevated common-councilman on the veracity of his statements.