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Show On Her Dignity. Sir Peter OT.rien, a lord chief justice jus-tice of Ireland, was going as a enm- niissioner of assizes on the Minister circuit, on which he had been for years a leader. A somewhat litigious female witness of the peasant class, with whom the chief justice when practising at the bar had been professionally pro-fessionally acquainted, was giving evidence. The chief justice interfered with a question, and commenced thus : "Now, Peggy, tell me " The witness, with with a ludicrous expression of offended dignity, thus rebuked his lordship's familiarity of manner: "Mrs. Modality, Modali-ty, Pettier, If you plaze." |