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Show B CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE. H The old miser in the story, who H dropped a five-dollar gold piece in the H plate at church, mistaking it for a H nickel, could get no great satisfac- H tion out of tho deacon, as will be re- M called, but ho was not tho man to H give up easily. Accordingly he sought H legal advice with a view to instituting B a suit at law. But the lawyer whom m he consulted was ono of those rare H , and giftod souls who would rather be H witty than rich, or almost anything H else, for that matter. "Sir," said he H at once, "you have no case. You are H guilty of contributory negligence." |