she got home, her adored Brutus developed melancholia, and died raving mad, after having bitten her child, who, by the way, had died, too.

For the defence, Gerald Kirby, K.C., declared that the spell his client had given the Countess was perfectly harmless; that it could not possibly have produced either melancholia or madness.  “Can any dependence,” he said, “be placed on a woman, who obviously thinks more of her dog’s death than that of her child!”

    The Court was adjourned till to-morrow.

In the following day’s paper, the evidence for the prosecution was continued.  Lady Marjorie Tatler, who, in the weekly and illustrated journals, for no other reason than her reputed beauty, was reintroduced over and over again to the long-suffering public, was the first to step into the witness-box.

She declared that Edward Curtis, instead of giving her a spell to make Florillda win the Derby, had given her a diabolical something that had brought out spots all over her face, and that she had to undergo a most expensive treatment before they could be got rid of.

    In cross-examination, Lady Marjorie Tatler admitted that she had
    asked Edward Curtis for a spell that would cause all the horses
    running in that particular race, save Florillda, to be taken ill.

For the defence, Gerald Kirby, K.C., explained that his client was so disgusted at the immorality of Lady Marjorie’s request, that he had purposely given her a spell that would have no effect upon a horse, and could not possibly bring out spots on her Ladyship’s face.  “The spell Edward Curtis gave her,” Gerald Kirby said, “was a mixture of hempseed and sago, flavoured with violet powder, and my client instructed her Ladyship to wear it next her heart.”  (Loud laughter.)

Lady Coralie Mars, the next witness, who declared she had sought a spell to make the man, she was forced into marrying, fall into a trance, just before the marriage ceremony was to take place; and that, instead of bringing this about, the spell Edward Curtis had sold her had caused her to have St. Vitus’s Dance,—­was adroitly trapped into admitting that she had really wanted her fiance smitten with paralysis.  “A wish,” Gerald Kirby announced, with a dramatic flourish of his hands, “that so aroused my client’s indignation that, instead of giving her the spell she wanted, he gave her one that would make her affianced husband more than ever hungry for the marriage hour to arrive.  As for St. Vitus’s Dance, would any woman, with an emotional and hysterical-nature, such as obviously was that of Lady Coralie Mars, ever be free from such a complaint?”

The Hon. Augusta Mapple, who stated that she had visited the Modern Sorcery Company, for the purpose of obtaining a spell to bring about a defeat of the Government, by afflicting the bulk of their supporters with such bilious attacks