Show judge often offen handed down humor from the fhe bench late lafo lord darling li livened IV enod drab scones with pleasantries Pleasant ries many are the stories told about lord darling better known as 03 mr justice darling glands En wittiest judge who died recently 1 ile ho was a poet with sovera several i published volumes to his credit but it was ills his humor from tho the bench that modo made his namo name almost a household word on ono one occasion a 0 claimed c exemption from jury duty on tho the ground that ho he was completely dent deaf in tho the left car you can go said judge darling gravely gravel Y 1 41 I cannot have anyone in tho the jury ury box who cannot hear both sides A lawyer who had the misfortune never to have acquired the ability to uso use tho the letter h relates mayor in ills hla legal reminiscences was engaged before justice darling in a case which had relation to a horse for some time tho the lawyer kept referring to the animal ris an orse after a 0 while darling looked down and said we s tho the animal a large horse or a little one oil oh a little one chent then sold bald tho the judge may we for tho the remainder of the case coll call it a pony polly in another case before justice darling in which a cockney caterer was suing to recover tho the cost of a picnic luncheon lie ho had provided for a 0 largo large number of people tho waxed highly indignant di under cross examination when it was suggested that ills his sandwiches were mostly broad and bread with tho the ham hain conspicuous only by its absence 1 I liam amazed I 1 wom hom surprised I 1 ham ho he sputtered that will doll dol interrupted dor ling 1 I suggest that had you been moro more generous with your hams on another occasion and a little less liberal with them hero you might not have leavo found yourself in this kansas city star |