Show I j Gen Butlers Ready Wit Tho editor heard tho other day a story of Gen B F Butler which is not wholly bad In a certain case in court which ho was conducting con-ducting tho general took occasion to read a statute bearing on the question at issue and somewhat tediously labored through its long and legally involved phrases i The judge let him go through with it and then bent forward to ask Are you not aware that that statute has been repealed i Oh certainly was tho cool answer but I have read tho old law and tho new and I find that 1 like the old much better I The perfect nonchalance of tho reply was certainly eminently characteristic Boston Courier |