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The Green Bag “Shure, ye can just tell th' coort that

yer, “but it will be necessary that I present to the court some grounds for a

I want a continuance till I can gitabetter

remand.

lawyer to spake for the boy."

What shall I say?"

The Editor will II [1nd to run'w for this “If!” anything likely {a ruler-Iain the reader: of the Gran: Bag in the we) o/lqml lah'qu'h'u, {cab}, and cream’.

USELESS BUT ENTERTAINING “'

HERE used to be an old fellow of sixty," said Judge Lindsey, at a Denver dinnerI

"who got arrested about twice a week for con

viviality. He was always haled before Magis trate Blank, and as the magistrate was about

you only got drunk sixteen times. I'll let you off.‘ “ ‘Thank you, Judge,' said old George. 2.5.118 looked the paper upside down, left thethough.' dock. "‘You —St. LouisatGlobe.

sixty too, a queer kind of comradeship, almost

friendly, arose between the two men. ‘‘In the late autumn the toper was called away from Denver. He did not return till Christmas time. “The magistrate, in the grccn-festooned court

NEGRO wascharged in a Mississippi C011"

with the murder of another of his race and had pleaded not guilty and on being questionﬂ‘l repeatedly had said, “I didn' do it, I didn' do it!" There was no doubt of his crime, however, and

the jury brought in a verdict of “guilty" and the

room, felt kindly:— “ ‘Well, George,’ he said to the prisoner, ‘you

are here again at last, eh?‘ “ ‘Yes, your honor,‘ said old George humbly. “ ‘And how many times, George, did you get drunk?’ “ ‘I don't like to say, your honor,‘ old George Ialtered, ‘before all these here people.’ “ ‘Well,’ said the magistrate, ‘write it down.’

“50 George wrote, and the paper was passed up to the magistrate, who looked at it and said :— “ ‘Ah, well, it's the Christmas season; and as

Judge proceeded to sentence.

After reminding the negro that he had been

“duly tried by a jury of twelve men," etc. the Judge said: “It is my duty to wam you that your days on this earth are numbered and It behooves you to avail yourself of the little

remnant of time allotted to you to make Youf peace with God." clamation, Just here“I the donenegro dat ar, broke Jedge, in Iwith donethe dat81‘ Br long befo' I killed dat niggah!"

Correspondence THE TORRENS SYSTEM AGAIN

letter published in the July number of

To the Editor of the Green Bag: —

the Green Bag, you quote the remarks

Sir: This torrid July weather, is not particularly conducive to cool and calm discussion of the Torrens Law, but as

the New York State Bar Association held at Syracuse in January, 1911, as

of a certain lawyer at the meeting of

follows:

you have been so kind as to allow me considerable space in previous issues

Here is a result which can actually practically [sic] happen.

A man may own a piece of vacant

of the Green Bag, I desire to still further trespass upon your courtesy.

In your editorial comment upon my

Eroperty, which he will naturally unfrequently sic] visit. He goes to Europe for six months and upon his return he finds that some one has