Show ill complete no more courteous judge ever presided at a trial than the venerable former justice of the new york court of common pleas charles P daly the story Is still told amon our new york lawyers bow on one occasion a young attorney while trying a case indulged in considerable vituperation of his opponents witnesses finally going so far as to answer the court very sharply when requested to modify his lan guage knowing that judge daly was somewhat of a stickler for the dignity of the judiciary lawyers and court attendants tend ants gai edat the offending attorney la amazement there was a long interval of silence finally the judge leaned over the bench and said with an ironical smile my young friend before you are as old as 1 am you will have learned that it is about as well to read chesterfield as success roecs to him who waits but this include books that slave been borrowed |