Show wit whetted by appetite A well known lawyer and author of this city who is a relative of senator sheriban She nar once had a head clerk to whom he gave a literary training and who became in timo a it regular contributor to several humorous s publications it frequently happened that the lawyers engagements kept kepl him away from froin lila ills onice until loux attar after the timo time 11 ari had fixed for hla LM return aften to the distress of his clerk wha who liked to lunch regularly tho the latter in desp on sent to a 0 paper ani had printed the following squib client how ilow do you know that youree will not return till 3 lawyers clerk because ho said when he went out that he lie would bo ile back at when the paragraph appeared tho the clerk showed it to 0 o his ills preceptor and asked him it he taw haw tho the point the tito lawyer r replied with dignity that lie did not ali cuss jokes during business hours but lie was wa thereafter a remarkably punctual man del delphia phia press |