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THE GREEN BAG

founded upon the common law and equity systems of England, modified and expanded in accordance with the principles of legal science "to meet the broadening wants and

requirements of a growing country and the gradual illumination of the public conscience. BOSTON, MASS., September, 1908.

THE OLD AND THE NEW BY HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE "T. Bardinelly, Counsellor At Law," — this single line Hangs out above a dingy door Upon a board of pine. And in the winds of forty springs, There in that squalid street The sign has swung and still it swings The passersby to greet. Yet none are seen to enter in To ask the unknown sage How they might cover up a sin Or hide a secret page. And Bardinelly, gaunt and grey, Behind the times ten years, Reads legal tomes the livelong day And smokes away his fears. The cob-webs clutch about his room, Rust lies upon his pen, He dwells apart there in his gloom Out of the world of men. But way down town in buildings high, The law firms, great with greed, Eat up all business on the fly And don't have time to read. CAMBRIDGE, MASS., September. 1908,