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 Rh which the libellee had been at the time very anx ious to ascertain, but which the libellant and her family had purposely kept from him. The counsel for libellee knowing this fact, in order to throw dis credit on the truthfulness of the boy witness, crossexamined him upon it, and with this result : — Ques. After your grandfather's death, did you not tell your father that he was still alive? Ans. No, sir, I did not. Ques. Do you swear that you did not tell him so? Ans. Yes, sir, I do. Ques. Did you not have some conversation with your father upon the subject? Ans. Yes, sir, I did. Ques. What did you tell him? Ans. He asked me something about it, and I told him Grandfather had a long job down in Hartford.

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"This is not the first time." said the judge, " I have seen your face, young gentleman, and that you have seen mine. You know very well we have met before." "No," said the boy, who began to whimper; "it 's the first time I was ever here, your worship. I hope you will have mercy, my lord." "Don't tell me that, ' said Arabin; " I can't be deceived. Your face is very familiar to me. — Do you know anything of this youngster, officer?" The officer answered : " Oh, yes, my lord; he 's a very bad boy, a constant associate of thieves. He 's been very badly brought up, my lord. His mother keeps a disreputable house in Whitechapel." "Ah! " said Arabin, " I knew I was right. 1 was quite sure your face was well known to me."

An amusing incident occurred a number of years ago, when Judge Lindley was on the bench. Squire M . an elderly man, but a young jus Lawyer Garvey had a case before him, and Judge tice, called at a friend's office one morning, and I Lindley made a ruling that practically amounted with much gravity announced : " Judge, I dropped to throwing the counsellor's client out of court. in to get a p'int of law. I want to know the law After a gasp of surprise, Mr. Garvey asked, — consarnin' a-puttin' of a badly spiled tarrupen in a "Am I correct in understanding that the court neighbor's churn. I've got Hinnen's 'Justices' has ruled against me?" an' the Code, an' I 've sarched both from kiver to "You are, sir," answered Judge Lindley. kiver, an' I don't fin' nuthin' under neither head." Garvey again repeated the question, and with Harper's Magazine. some heat the judge informed him that if he un derstood the English language he certainly under stood that the ruling was adverse. "Look here," said the wrathful young lawyer, " Well, well," said Garvey, with a sigh of resig "I thought you swore to give a verdict in accord nation, " I hope, for the credit of the court, it ance with the facts?" "Wal," answered the juryman, thoughtfully, will never be noised abroad." pulling his beard, " the facts did n't turn out as I expected 'em to." Lawyer. Now, Mr. Jenks, I want you to tell me the truth without any evasion. Had you or Many good stories are told of Sergeant Arabin, had you not had any altercation with the prisoner who was a commissioner of the Central Criminal before this event you speak of? Witness. Well, to tell the truth, we did go Court in London. into the bar and take something, but I don't think He once said to a witness : " My good man, that was the name of it. don't go gabbling on so. Hold your tongue, and answer the question that is put to you." A story is told of a distinguished lawyer in Arabin prided himself very much on possessing the faculty of recognizing faces he had once seen, the " Boston Gazette." One time a physician came to him in great distress. Two sisters living and the result was that he often claimed old ac quaintanceship with the rogues and thieves that were in the same house had babes of an equal age who brought before him. A young urchin who had been so resembled each other that their own mothers found guilty of some petty larceny came up for were unable to distinguish them when they were together. Now it happened that by the careless sentence.