LETTING ON.

A LAWYER, in Ireland, who was pleading the cause of an infant plaintiff,

took the child up in his arms, and presented it to the jury, suffused

with tears. This had a great effect, till the opposite lawyer asked what

made him cry? "He pinched me!" answered the little innocent. The whole

court was convulsed with laughter.

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