Upon the bench Judge Witherspoon, assigned from somewhere upstate to help keep down the ever-lengthening criminal calendar of the Metropolitan District, finished the letter he was writing to his wife in Genesee County, sealed it and settled back in his chair.

He smelled like upstate New Yorkdirt, dairy farms, and industrial towns.

"I'm from Maine and upstate New York, originally.

He's from upstate New York.

Where does he live?" "Upstate New York.

where on earth is thisfarmhouse, I guessmust be away upstate somewherewho on earth are these people?

Upstate, downstate.

Upstate, downstate.