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Can it [the right of distress] exist there in rriuch the same sort of discussion that has dependently of the deed? It certainly can furnished amusement for those who have ... if our titles be feudal; it as certainly really opened their Shakspeare and Bacon. cannot if our titles be allodial. . . . What It was nothing extraordinary that many citi Pennsylvanian ever obtained his lands by zens excitedly inquired, " Have we a Bour 'openly and humbly kneeling before his bon among us? " Now, what is extraordi lord, being ungirt, uncovered, and holding nary is that Gibson was asked by a friend — up his hands both together between those a brother on the bench — what he thought of of the lord, who sat before him, and there the book, and answered seriously, "I believe

professing that he did it's true." It is nearly become his man from needless to add that that day forth, for life the man afterward and limb and earthly proved a self-deceived honour, and then re impostor, —-an Indian ceiving a kiss from his half-breed. The next thing is still more sin lord?' This was the gular. He was dining oath of fealty. ... I with a friend in town, conclude, therefore, and one of the several that the state is lord people present men paramount as to no tioned that there was man's land." a rat in China whose So, besides having homage described to scent was so strong us as fealty, we find that if it ran over a bottle of wine it would that land is allodial in Pennsylvania, al flavor the wine. The though subinfeuda next time the Chief tion still exists. Of Justice came to town course this later case he asked his host's son, virtually overrules In" Where 's L ?" gersoll v. Sergeant. "At Wilmington." But in spite of the in "Tell him I forbid efficient self-impor him to come within the HENRY GREEN tance of the earlier confines of the Com case, it is an estab monwealth until he lished rule of property in Pennsylvania; and furnishes me with proof of the truth of that were the questions ever again to be raised, rat story. I have been telling that story it is probable that Wallace v. Harmstead through the Commonwealth, and my friends would be repudiated. all think I am crazy." Some years after Through Chief-Justice Gibson's minr" ward the same fact about the rat was men there ran an unaccountable vein of cre tioned in one of the English reviews, which dulity which the two following anecdotes Mr. L accordingly sent to the gentle illustrate. man to whom Gibson had complained, with An old man in Pike (or Wayne County) a letter, begging him to show it to the Judge, believed himself the Dauphin of France, and hoping that his wrath would be appeased, and wrote a book to prove it. Of course and that he would recall the sentence of ban such a thing created among the intelligently ishment. The next motion-day this gentleman ignorant and the well-read unintelligent — afterward Attorney-General for Penn