Show HE GOT THEn BOTH The Fledgling Lawyer Makes a Splendid Stroke of Business Detroit Free Press My best stroke of business was when I first hung out my shingle in the west told the lawyer law-yer who now handles none butithe most important and remunerative cases Living about 50 miles north of the town in which I was impatiently waiting wait-ing for something to do was an eccentric ec-centric old fellow who owned enough land to make three or four counties and enough cattle to feed the armies of the world I As I was pacing up and down the little office one morning wondering > vhat I could go at if my first case didnt come soon I answered a knock it the door to meet a young lady who lad all the glow and vigor of the peal ie with the easy society ways of the ultured eastern woman While I was trying to recover my breath she told ne that she was a messenger from heather ather who had heard that there was anew a-new lawyer in town and wanted his pinion in a matter that threatened to ead to a lawsuit I took the letter she landed me and found it signed by the ich old ranchman But your father asks an opinion i j vithout making any statement of his l ase I said after reading Its evident that you dont know iapa If you sent back for further information in-formation he would denounce you as tn ignoramus and have nothing more to do with you Write something earned in language but obscure in deas Quote a lot of your musty old egal maxims in the original Latin and tbove all things abuse the other man vith merciless bitterness In three hours she was back from ier shopping and the learned opin on was ready The language was onderous The sentences were long tnd involved The Latin was injected Ithout referfnce to the context and he abuse was underlined with red ink she read and lauched till her spark ng eyes rained tears down her bril iant cheeks You must arrange to do ill papas law business she warned ne at parting and I danced a boister jus solo when she was cone Next day came a letter from papa Ie had at last found a lawyer That pinion was worthy of aWebster or a hoate He enclosed 1000 and made ne his attorney Later I got the daughter daugh-ter |