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Show Irishman's Joke. Over In Clay county, Mo., there wis a tunny Irishman, says the Wellington Welling-ton News. It was years ago when Philander Lucas was Judge of ihe circuit cir-cuit court Tho Irishman had a suit before Lucas, and when It was tried, his attorney asked that it be passed as his client wanted to employ additional addi-tional counsel. When tho judge was going to dinner, the Irishman accosted accost-ed him. "Your honor," he began. Ol'm thlnkln' Iv Imployln another lawyer f'r me, case. An'. 01,, think 01 wud rather pny yeez t' rlprayslnt me than anny wan else. Dccauso, judge, 01 think yeez have a very good knowledge knowl-edge lv th' law an' thin, beln' on tir bench, ycci wud havo a very good noUon lv how th' thing Is go In'." |