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ON A PORTRAIT OF HENRY W. PAINE. Bv Wendell P. Stafford.

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OOK on a Lawyer, here, par excellence! If, in your judgment, that should mean that he

Must needs be sinewy and adroit in fence, Bold in assault, sudden in repartee — So, in good truth, he was.

But if you deem

He must be likewise shrewd to over-reach — One man to be, another man to seem — So was he not.

He matched his thought with speech.

He came, at manhood, to the lists and threw His gauntlet down with modest courtesy. For. two-score years, whatever trumpet blew, None took the gage up with impunity. Yet not in sword or shield he put his trust : He was thrice armed, having his quarrel just.