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 After reaching the neighborhood of the battlefield I stopped at a rectory and the rector, an intelligent gentleman, pointed out to me the way across two or three intervening fields. In a vale between low hills stood a rude monument of rough stone twenty feet high marking the spring where Richard III was killed to make way for another line of English kings.

We crossed the ocean from Southampton to New York in the City of Paris. On board were Pillsbury, who had been Attorney General of Massachusetts; Rufus E. Shapley, the Philadelphia lawyer who wrote Solid for Mulhooly; and the secretary of Chauncey M. Depew. We started in a storm so fierce that the seas swept over the upper decks and the hatchways had to be closed and the passengers locked below, much to their discomfort. At the international concert, whose programme was printed on the vessel, I presided and made an address.

When I went to Europe at the beginning of the summer vacation all of the matters before the court had been disposed of except one and upon that we had reached a conclusion and Sulzberger and Wiltbank promised that one of them would write the opinion. The Christian Science Church had applied for a charter. In addition to teaching certain theological tenets, they proposed to treat diseases through the instrumentality of “healers” who charged a fee for their services and advertised, seeking business. After discussion, all of the three judges were opposed to granting the charter for the reason that it would be in conflict with those statutes which make it a criminal offense to practice medicine except after study and upon a certificate of the Board of Examiners. We determined to select some good lawyer, disinclined to overlook the technique of his profession, a little set and narrow, closely associated with some one of the orthodox churches, so as to be certain of an adverse report and refer the case to him as master. We all felt sure that Henry Budd was our man and we made the reference. After long and careful study and a full Rh