Excerpt from Shorthand Reporters: A Digest of Statutes and Legal Decisions Relating to Official Stenographers and Their Reports; Being a Thorough and Concise Compilation of All the General Laws, and Important Special Laws, of the Various States and Territories of the United States, Relati A little to one side you will see a silent man sitting at a little table, with pen in hand, who follows each spoken word with swift and noiseless movements, recording impartially the words of wisdom, wit and folly which follow each other in rapid succession. Witnesses come and go, lawyers question and cross-question, object and argue, the Court quietly announces his rulings, one case is ended and another begins; and through it all the silent man writes, writes, writes, unceasi/ngly and with unslackened speed. Few of those who look upon him realize that they are beholding as near an approach to a miracle as unaided human hands and brains have thus far accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.