Show re rea ESSA A starving Irit irishman liman wandering about london came to a building bear ing the inscription I 1 lying in hospital by tho the po powers vers he exclaimed the me for ive been lying alyin out for a fortnight EQ A gentleman was complaining to a pious prelate that a certain clarg clergyman 31 in his parish was vas gone mad madjor for that lie did nothing but preach and pray 1 I wish then said the good bishop he would bite some of my clergy g A lawyer and a doctor came in into collision and the doctor came off second best in in the capital story that a tennessee friend communicates to a 11 col stone a practicing practising law lawyer y er and dr mason a practising practicing physician were rival rn al candidates for the senate and yi were ere stumping the district together arma dr mason was iv as a warm advocate for law reform and in in arguing its necessity he referred to a certain case in in which his competitor had been non suited upon some technicality now said dr mason we need to have the law reformed or col stone is is incompetent to brin bring g a suit correctly he can take either horn of the dilemma 11 col stone replied fellow citizens the doctor has the advantage of me when I 1 make a mistake in in my profession sion he has only to go to the records of the court and find it and publish it to the world orld but when hen h he be makes a mistake in in his profession he buries it six feet under ground the people appreciated the lawyers r ready eady wit and forgave him the blunder charged upon him for the sake of the c lever clever retort lie he made at the doctors doc tois expense 11 |