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importance, stated, " I am one of Her man is he?" asked the querist, who hap pened to be a great admirer of Lockwood. Majesty's Counsel, learned in the law." "Oh, he'll do," said the aged citizen. " I beg your pardon, sir," said the abashed "They say in London that he's doing," sentinel." " Oh," said the well-known wit, observed the friend, who was nettled at the " you have erred on the right side in the lack of appreciation of his friend. " Oh, exercise of vigilance. We cannot be too careful in preserving this passage from indeed; who's he a-doing of, now?" in common intruders. I quired the old genam myself very care tleman. y ful about this matter," Like all good lr IfrttttftW HMO*. pa. and he bowed ap ~zr. story-tellers, it w a s provingly as he alone the inimitable style in rode through the which the story was quickly opened gates. told that gave it its Sir Frank Lockappreciation, and he wood was not only a provoked the laugh wit and a raconteur, quite as much by the but he was as hum tone of the voice or orous with his pencil the roll of the eye as with his anecdotes as the actual words and repartees. In he employed, In an j gjiiu to fttftat. fact, he was so talent action f o r libel ed in this direction brought by a Mr. that had he made a Brooks against Lafailure at the bar, he bouchere of "Truth," might have achieved and successfully de distinction as an art fended by Lockwood, ist also, as well as an the plaintiff, while in actor. He was, par the witness-box, excellence a carica stated that he had ex turist, and had so pended from time to deft a way of deline time £40,000 in liti ating a face, and such gation. Sir Frank MR. MURPHY, O.C AS A HIGHLANDER. a trick of exaggera looked at him with an (From an original by Frank Lockwood, drawn on '•".back of a brief.) tion in feature or expression of deep form, that he was admiration and ejac able to endow it with life and faithful resem ulated : " Long may you live and pros per," with a whimsical intonation that blance. It was while he was briefless, at convulsed the court. On the occasion of the outset of his career at the bar, that a levee some time ago, Sir Frank Lock- he first busied himself with pen-and-ink wood's carriage was stopped, along with the sketching, and as the famous Tichborne trial was then engrossing world-wide atten carriages of many dignitaries, more impor tant than he then was, at the entrance to the tion, he had no difficulty in disposing, Horse Guards at Whitehall by an orderly, in a ready market, of his drawings of the claimant, the witnesses, Dr. Kenealy, Haw who stated that there was " no thorough fare." Sir Frank put his head out of the kins, Q. C. (now the famous Mr. Jus window, and, assuming an air of supreme tice Hawkins), and the many other long 01VO1OS
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