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Show Despite Gravity's Law This story is told of an Irish lawyer named Keller who was famous for his native wit but who. partly fmni indolence indo-lence and partly Trom a frivol.. us disposition, dis-position, did not succeed particularly well in his profession. Another lawyer named Mayne. s sober and ponderous as Keller was light-minded and clever, was made a Judge, much to Keller's vexation. On one occasion the Impecunious Im-pecunious lawyer was sitting In the courtroom where Judge Mayne was solemnly presiding. Suddenly he piil.ked a brother attorney by the sleeve. "Look at that." he whispered. "There's Mayne risen by his gravity, nnd here I am sunk by my levity. What would Sir Isaac Newton make of that, I wonder?" Youth's Companion. |