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 THE LIGHTER SIDE "I have not had too much, certainly," replied the lawyer warmly. For a moment the affair appeared serious and the court room was silent. Then the judge said quietly, " Do you want too much?" The attorney saw the point and proceeded with his case without remark.

bor, the doctor. After suffering a while, he met the doctor and said: " Doctor, this thing is getting along very slowly. I have walked the floor nights for a week. What are you doing to it?" The doctor, who stammered badly, replied: "• Co-co-continuing it, by George." — Boston Herald.

THE LITTLE LAWYER MAN. IT was a little lawyer man Who softly blushed as he began Her poor, dead husband's will to scan. He smiled while thinking of his fee, Then said to her, so tenderly, "You have a nice, fat legacy." And when, next day, he lay in bed With bandages upon his head, He wondered what on earth he said. A Letter of Attorney. —- This was actually received from a "judge" of whom a leading law publisher inquired as to an attorney's standing. Dear, sir, You Riten me in Regard to, an atorney, That is in our town, I will say that i, Am well Aquanted, with him, and will say that he is not verey well heald finanshieley, heald but has A, farm, and is A, srude, Young man, and I beleave he is honest, and as square in all, his delings, as enneywone, I hav perfck confidence, in him, in evry, Respect, he is well likeby all in this place, Yours Truley, Judge, Continued in Both Cases. — Many years ago there lived in Camden, Me., two neighbors, Dr. Huse and Judge Thayer. The doctor had occasion to sue a man, and of course employed his neighbor, the judge, as his counsel. After a session of court he met the judge and asked about his case. The judge said it was contin ued. Meeting him again, after another ses sion, and. asking again about his case, the same answer -was given. As it cost §2 or $3 each time it was continued, the doctor thought by the time it was settled, after paying the judge, he would get nothing. Some time afterward the judge was afflicted with a felon, and of course employed his neigh

Law Versus Common Sense. — Tillman's phrase of " cornfield law " is likely to go far, as the French say; and it reminds me of what two or three chief justices said of the New Hampshire courts, when the judges were farmers and parsons, or country justices of the peace, endowed with what it has been the fashion to call " horse sense." John Dudley, of Raymond, was one of these, and of him Chief Justice Parsons said: " You may laugh at his law and ridicule his language, but Dudley is, after all, the best judge I ever knew in New Hampshire." Arthur Livermore, another chief justice, said, with Dudley in his mind: "Never was justice better administered in New Hampshire than when the judges knew very little of what we lawyers call law." Here is one of Dudley's charges to the traverse jury: You've heered what has been said by the lawyers, the rascals! but no, I won't abuse 'em. "Tis their business to make out a good case — they're paid for it, and they've done well enough in this case. But you and I, gentlemen, have sunthin else to think of. They talk about law — why, gentlemen, it's not law we want, but justice. They want to govern us by the common law of England; trust me for it, common sense is a much safer guide for us — the common sense of Raymond, Exeter, Ipin (Epping), and the other towns that sent us here to try this case between two of our neighbors. A clear head and an honest heart are wuth more than all the law of all the lawyers. There was one good thing said by "em though; 'twas from one Shakspeare, an English stage-player, I believe. No matter for that; 'twas e'enamost good enough to be in. the Bible — " Be just and fear not." That's the law in this case, gentlemen, and law enough in any case in this court. It's our business to do justice between the parties; not by any quirks o' the law out of' Coke or Blackstone — books that I never read and