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 Thomas Addis Emmet:. with him "; which the client did. " Now," said Emmet, a day or two after, " go and claim the two hundred dollars while alone, and he will give it to you." And so it proved, and the bewildered client returned with it to ask how he was better off. Then Emmet added, " To-morrow go to the innkeeper with your witness friend and say, " Having returned me my first two hundred dollars I come now for the second two hundred." The rogue of course on another visit denied its reception, but the witness spoke up and said, " I saw the transaction, and will bear testimony in court." The village Boniface, fearing for the reputation of his house if suit was brought, and exposure re sulted, paid over the money, and realized how he had been beaten. Then the client returned exultingly to Emmet, who refused a fee. And the saddler and his witness friend were not chary in telling to every body what a shrewd man was the Irish rebel lawyer from the old country. When Thomas Addis Emmet was the so-called Irish rebel, he had in his native country two compatriots who also emigrated to New York — William Sampson, a Dublin barrister, who became the John Philpot Curran in wit and repartee of its Bar, and Dr. MacNevin, who became an eminent

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physician in his new home. Emmet and McNevin each have a commemorative shaft on opposite sides of St. Paul's church yard. Together when first in New York they collaborated in a published volume containing narratives of Irish scenes. Emmet's legal excellence was long kept vivid by his son Robert, who won triumphs as a member of the New York Bar, and subsequently as a judge of its Superior Court, that has recently, in company with the Court of Common Pleas, been merged in the Supreme Court of the State, after the plan of Lord Campbell, whereby the Lon don courts of Queen's Bench, Exchequer and Common Pleas were merged into one Supreme Court of Judicature, with several divisions of specialty jurisdiction. A son of Robert still further keeps alive at the New York Bar the legal traditions of the Emmet family; and yet another grandson of Thomas Addis Emmet, and his namesake, embraced the medical profession, which the great Irish exile discarded for the legal. And at this time of writing a great-grand daughter, Rosina Emmet, is attracting, by her marvelous picture entitled " Intermezzo," in the water-color exhibition at the Acad emy of Design, groups of admiring critics and connoisseurs, who never fail to recall to each other her famous ancestry.

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