Reform Club.
_Lawyers' Bags_ (Vol. vii., pp. 85. 144.).--Colonel Landman is doubtless
correct in his statement as to the colour of barristers' bags; but from the
evidence of A TEMPLAR and CAUSIDICUS, we must place the change from green
to red at some period anterior to the trial of Queen Caroline. In Queen
Anne's time they were _green_.
"I am told, Cousin Diego, you are one of those that have undertaken to
manage me, and that you have said you will carry a _green bag_
yourself, rather than we shall make an end of our lawsuit: I'll teach
them and you too to manage."--_The History of John Bull_, by Dr.
Arbuthnot, Part I. ch. xv.