Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 34
The average woman cannot judge how mucha foot is within several inches, but she can esti-mate a yard very closely, while with the averageman the case is reversed. If some one askedyou which was the longer, a horses head fromthe tip of his ears to the end of his nose, or anordinary flour-barrel, you… … has not been brought home to it by experience-The landlubber at sea greatly underestimatesthe distance of passing ships, having no familiarlandmarks with which to make comparisons.Truthful men under oath in court often dis-agree widely as to observed facts, and no doubtwith perfect honesty. We will…
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