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Show STORIES TOLD OF LAWYERS. Good Tales Culled From English II lustrated Magazine. Somo Interesting ancedotcs and gossip, gos-sip, new and old, of tho law courts aro given in tho English Illustrated Magazine. The writer of the article, Mr." A. J. Hughes, was onco present in court when a Juror who opened tho ball by saying: "This case, my lord, really lies In a nutshell," received tho reply, "You crack It then." Thero havo been times when clever witnesses wit-nesses havo got tho better of counsel In a skirmish of words. When tho fnrrler was asked where ho got his knowledgo ol tho mare's ago from, ho said: "From tho mare's own mouth, sir." Irish lawyers aro generally endowed by Dame Nature with quick wltB. Among them all, perhaps, Cur-rim Cur-rim held the palm for lightness nnd vivacity. When Bomoono told him that no student should bo called to the bar who did not possess a landed estato of his own, ho retorted: "How many acres mako a wiseacre?" But It was a Scotsman, appropriately enough Lord Brougham, who, seeing his horses tuko fright, yelled to tho coachman, coach-man, "Drive Into something cheap!" |
