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Show STORIES TOLD OF LAWYERS. Good Tales Culled From English Illustrated Il-lustrated Magazine. Some Interesting ancedotes and gossip, gos-sip, new and old, 'of the law courts are given in the English Illustrated Magazine. The writer of the article, Mr. A. J. Hughes, was once present in court when a juror who opened the "ball by saying: "This case, my lord, really lies In a nutshell," received the reply, "You crack it then." There have been times when clever witnesses wit-nesses have got the better of counsel in a skirmish of words. When the farrier was asked where he got his knowledge of the mare's age from, he said: "From the mare's own mouth, sir." Irish lawyers are generally endowed by Dame Nature with quick wits. Among them all, perhaps, Cur-ran Cur-ran held the palm for lightness and vivacity. When someone told him that no student should be called to the bar who did not possess a landed estate' of his own, he retorted: "How many acres make a wiseacre?" But it was a Scotsman, appropriately enough. Lord Brougiam, who, seeing his horses take fright, yelled to the coachman, coach-man, "Drive into something cheap!" |
