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Show CHAUNCEY'S TURN TO LAUGH . i Close-Plited Farmer Learned Some- thlno About the Value Legal Lights Set on Services, Chnuncey M. Depew, In writing the story or his life, recalls his llrst law case. It was In Peeksklll. Tho client wus a farmer and he wuntcd mi opinion opin-ion on cortuln property rights. Depew spent it week In tanking up tho points of law that bad bearing on the enso and when he hud Mulshed Charged tho modest fey of So. "Too much." cried thu fiumer. N "Hut It's taken me a whole week to prepare this." protested Depew. "Don't make no difference," declared the fnriuer. "I fSiirc $1..'.0 Is nil It's worth mid that's nil jouiv coin- to get." About a week later the mini cmne to the ntllee again. ".Mr. Depew." ho said. "I bail fconiu doubis iibuiil Hint opinion f jours, so I took It down to Now York iiii.t showed u i Mr. . And what tin Jon think be charged me, jut for teiidln' inut opinion of jours and putting put-ting his u. K. on lir 'How much," demanded Depew, till excited, "Five hundred dollars I" |