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Anent the admirable picture and sketch, in No vember's " Green Bag," of that genuine man and wonderful lawyer Jerry Mason, I have heard — what well might be true, but is it? — this tradition : that when pitted against Webster in jury-trials, and when the great expounder had exhausted his thunderous arguments and declamation in the when-my-eyesshall-be- turned -for-the-last-time-to-behold-the-sun-inheaven style, Mason's habit was to hoist one of his big feet up into a chair before the jury, and with elbow on knee and with the air of the veriest rustic begin : " Gentlemen, I ain't eloquent like my friend Webster; but jest let me state a few p'ints to you in reply to his fine speech," — and so forth. After some such exordium he would go on and go on, it might be for hours, in the plainest, simplest talk about the evidence in the case, with arms akimbo, and forefinger beating emphasis on the palm of his left hand, — his only gesture. But such clear, convincing logic, such adaptation to the men tal habits of his listeners! The Ancient Mariner held not his auditor with so firm a grip and spell. According to Webster's own admission, he feared an encounter with Mason more than w'th any other member of the New England Bar. Quare : Is not Mason's style of discourse far above what is com monly called oratory, and is it not far more difficult to attain? From Holton, Penn., comes a complaint against the profession : — Editor of the " Green Bag" : Our counsel has been disputing my wishes for a year or more, to have a defect in our title corrected which comes from a deed recorded in 1842. reading "Benjamin " instead of " Bernard " for the name of the vendor. I settled him by quoting what our witty lawyer Reardon said. Coming into court and seeing three attorneys engaged in a case, he said, in a stage-whisper, "Three members of the bar