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 and not any way relating to the matter in hand! I should will, I design to show what damages my client has sustianed hereupon, whereupon, and thereupon. Now, my Lord, as a client being a servant in the same family with Dishclout, not being at board wages, imagined he had a right to a fee simple of the dripping pan; therefore he made an attainment on the sop with his right hand, which the defendant replevied with her left hand, tripped us up, and tumbled into the dripping pan. Now, in Broughton's Reports, [inillegible txt]SI versus Smallwood, it is said that primus strocus sine joy absolutus est provokus; now, who gave the primus Strocus who gave the first offence? Why, the cook; she brought the dripping-pan there; for, my Lord, though we will all have if we had not been there we could not have been thrown down there; yet, my Lord, if the dripping-pan had not been there for us to have tumbled down into, we could not have tumbled down into the dripping-pan.".

The next counsel on the same side began with,"Lord, he who makes use of many words to no purpose, he had not much to say for himself; therefore I shall come to a point at once, and immediately I shall come to the point. My client was in liquor; the liquor in him having served ejectment upon his understanding, common sense was nonsuitable and he was a man beside himself, as Dr. Biblibus declares, that his Dissertation upon Bumpers. In the 130th folio volume and the Abridgment of the Statutes, page 1286, he says, that a drunken man is homo duplicans, or a double man, not or because he sees things double, but also because he is not as he should be, perfecto ipse he, but is, as he should not In defecto tipse he."

The counsel on the other side rose up gracefully, playing with his ruffles prettily, and tossing the tyes of his wig about emphatically. He began with, " My Lud, and you gentlemen of the jury, I humbly do conceive I have the authority to declare, that I am counsel in this case for the defendant therefore, my Lud, I shall not flourish away in words; words are no more than filagree work. Some people may think them an embellishment, but to me it is a matter of astonishment how any one can be so impertinent to the detriment of all rudiment; but, my Lud, this is not to be looked through the medium of right and wrong; for the law knows no medium, and right and wrong are but its shadows. Now in the first place, they have called my client's premises kitchen. Now, a kitchen is nobody's premises; a kitchen is not a warehouse nor a washhouse; a brewhouse nor a bakehouse; an outhouse nor an innhouse, nor a dwelling house