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Show TRAPPING A LAWYER. In some eases counsel receive answers to questions that they had no business to put, winch, if not quite to their liking, nre what they justly deserve. The following story of George Clarke, a celebrated negro minstrel, is a case in point On one occasion, when being examined as n witness, he was severely' interrogated by n lawyer. v "You nre in the minstrel business, I believe?" inquired the lawyer. "Yes, sir," wns the reply- "Is not thnt rnther a low calling?" "1 don'Lknow but what it is, sir," replied the minstrel, "but it is so much better than my father's that I am rather proud of it." The lawyer- fell into the trap. "Whnt wns your fnther's cnlling?" he inquired. 'Tie wns n lnwyer," replied Clarke, in n tone thnt sent the whole court into a roar of laughter ns the discomfited dis-comfited lnwyer snt down. Weekly Telegraph. |