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Show NEW STORIES IN LAW. One Lawyer's Exorbitant Fee ITow Much the Testator Left. A lawyer of some distinction, who began practice in a small New England town, says his first client required a fleed covering certain parcels of land sold to a neighbor. The deed was drawn in due form, and after its execution exe-cution the client demanded his bill. It was $2. This amount was objected to as a most exorbitant sum for the service serv-ice rendered. "I told him," says the lawyer, "that to enable me to draw the deed I studied two years in the Lancaster academy, and this cost me ?200; then I spent four years in Dartmouth college, which cost me $250 a year more, and then I went to the Harvard law school for another year at a cost of $500. " 'So you see, Mr. Hines, that to get the necessary education to do this work I had to pay out $1,700, and yet you think my charge of $2 is a largo one.' "The man looked at me for a moment mo-ment in amazement and then exclaimed: ex-claimed: 'Gosh! What a darned fool you must have been before they begun on you!' " From the same source comes tho story of a lawyer who was said in his day to have drawn more wills than any one else in his county. Upon tho death of a respected citizen' there was much speculation as to the value of his property. ' The village gossip undertook un-dertook to find out the facts. Calling upon Mr. Heywood the lawyer referred re-ferred to he remarked: "Well, I suppose you made Mr. Blank's will?" "Yes," was the answer. "Well, then," continued the gossip, according to the New York Times, "you probably know about how much he left. Would you mind telling me?" "Oh, no," said Mr. Heywood, in his slow way. "lie left every cent he had." |