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London before the Lord Chief-Justice of hole in the wall, deposited the jar with England and a special jury. The third trial the twenty sovereigns and the codicil, then commenced at the Guild Hall on Feb. covered it up and screwed the vice over 22, 1864. Sir Alexander Cockburn was it again; and all this to prevent any one on the bench; and the most eminent coun from ever finding it. (Laughter.) The sel at the bar were engaged on either side. hole in the wall! Why, imagination could Mr., afterward Sir John, Karslake, Q. C., hardly go beyond it! No more codicils the present Lord Field, and the present had been found since, and one great blessing Lord Hannen appeared for Else; Mr. Ser of these Chancery proceedings had been geant Hayes, Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, and that they had stopped the finding of codicils. Mr., now Mr. Justice, Wills represented (Laughter.) But for them a fourth codicil Nuttall's trustees. The case was keenly must have been found! It must have come. contested, and for a long time the fate of The second and third had each been found the day seemed doubtful. But it was at after nine months, — the usual period of last decided against Else, chiefly by the gestation, — but perhaps, as there was so following circumstances, (i) In the first little of the property still left to be disposed place Mr. Sergeant Hayes, with admirable of, this might have been only a seven Irish wit, poured such a flood of ridicule months' codicil. (Great laughter.) It was upon the alleged discovery by Else of certainly difficult to conceive where it could the third codicil, that Mr. Karslake could have been found. One could hardly imagine not get the jury to consider the matter any more obscure place for secreting another seriously again. " What could be more codicil. Perhaps, however, in Job'Knowles's utterly incredible," asked the learned quarry, while his men were blasting the rock Sergeant, " than the whole story? ' What 's with gunpowder of course, in some fissure that?' said Else, 'what's that in the jar?' Else might have seen an antediluvian toad Why, a codicil to be sure! what else could sitting on something (laughter, and said, it be? In a jar in a hole in the wall, ' Bless me! what is that?' (great laughter), ' covered with cobwebs,' of course what 'what could it be but a codicil?'" (Roars could it be but a codicil? This finder of of laughter). Wrath is cruel and anger is codicils, who seemed to find nothing but outrageous, but who is able to stand before codicils, what should it be but a codicil, and ridicule? Even more effective than Mr. a codicil in his favor? Ina hole in the Sergeant Hayes's mirth was the evidence of wall! Why, it might not, but for this mirac the expert Chabot. He pointed out that ulous discovery, ever have been found at there was a keyword by which the hand all. Not until the house was pulled down, writing of the testator could be infallibly a century hence perhaps! What a place distinguished from that of Else. It was for a man of business to put his last will in! the shortest and commonest of all words But what will you say when I tell you that in the language, — the little monosyllable I will prove that an iron vice, weighing about " to." Nuttall's habit was to leave the " t " in sixty pounds, was in the testator's lifetime "to" wholly uncrossed. He sometimes, but screwed over the window-board under which very rarely, crossed it through, the cross ex the hole was found, so that the testator two tending on each side of the down-stroke. He months before his death, laboring under an half crossed it, beginning the cross at the abscess in his back (which he described in down stroke, so seldom that practically it one of his letters as five inches long, three might be said he never did it at all. Else inches broad, and one and a half inches sometimes but very seldom left the " t " un deep), must have gone up to that loft, un crossed; he also sometimes but very seldom screwed this vice, lifted it up, made the crossed it wholly, his cross extending right