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 London Legal Letter. direction. Then Ed turned the outfit round, drove down the hill, and they made a thor ough search of Goose Creek bottom. Still no Boze could be found. Zevely, to assuage his friend's grief, sug gested that as it was a very hot day, Boze might have grown weary of the long trot and concluded to go back home. Ed sadly and solemnly responded that he had never known Boze to do such a thing before. "I fear, Zev," said he, " that the worst has happened to him, and I shall never again hear his sweet, peculiar howl at night. I am sorry I ever scolded him for fondling my Sunday clothes with his dirty paws." At this juncture they met a " wayfaring man " in the person of a small negro boy.

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"Say, boy," said Ed, " have you seen any thing of a yellow dog with white spots on his neck and shoulders around here?" "A yaller dawg wid white spots on him?" responded the little African, with what Ze vely thought was a peculiar twinkle in his eyes. "Yes," said Ed, " I'll give you a great big dollar if you 'll find him for me." The boy grinned and said, " Mister, mebby that 's yer dawg under the buggy thar?" Sure enough it was. In fact, Boze had been trotting along under the buggy all the while, to get protection from the hot sun's rays. Ed paid the dollar, and made Zevely promise not to tell the story " up town; " but it got out, and its divulgence lies between Boze and the little negro.

LONDON LEGAL LETTER. London'. Jan. 5, 1892. name I suggested, is, so far as one can judge, the AS I write, the Christmas recess draws to a most likely nomination. The position is one held saw the last of the Michaelmas Sittings for 1891; 1 of the Lord Mayor's Court, but tries prisoners we resume our labors, some of us only our pa regularly at the Old Bailey as a Commissioner of tient vigils, on the nth of January, 1892. the Central Criminal Court; moreover, at State For six days the metropolis was enveloped in an ceremonies, in which the corporation participates, impenetrable fog. Night and day it held its grip; he is their official mouthpiece. only now and then did the banished light avail to The wills of some great lawyers have recently produce the aspect of a dim dawn. Traffic was been proved, — the late Baron Huddlestone's for sometimes almost entirely suspended; dealers in,£64,579; that of Mr. Charles Freshfield, the cele Christmas wares found that the hope of their gains brated solicitor, for an amount exceeding a quar was gone, and those whose business or public ter of a million. The wills of lawyers are oftener duty did not compel them to stir abroad crouched than not great surprises, — men who have been within doors by the hearth, as though a plague credited with vast fortunes, and who had certainly were in the streets. The atmospheric spectre did earned immense sums, leaving a comparatively its worst on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; moderate pile, and vice versa. It was expected for so dense was the darkness that but few invited that Baron Huddlestone would leave a far larger guests were able to present themselves at the Yule- fortune; but, I think, without sufficient reason. tide feasts to which they were bidden. In his day he no doubt enjoyed a very large prac Since the court rose, the city has lost by death tice; but it was not of the sort which implies its principal legal dignitary, Sir Thomas Chambers, habitually great fees. Mr. Justice Hawkins, still the Recorder. In my September letter I referred happily spared to us, is reputed to have taken to the rumors then afloat as to his probable re more money away with him from the bar, when tirement and possible successor. Sir William Ma- he became a judge, than any man of his genera riott, Q. C, the Judge Advocate-General, whose tion. Charles Freshfield was of the firm of Fresh
 * close. St. Thomas's Day, December 2r, in high repute; its holder is not only Chief-Judge