STORY THE TWENTY-THIRD -- THE LAWYER’S WIFE WHO PASSED THE LINE.

_Of a clerk of whom his mistress was enamoured, and what he promised to

do and did to her if she crossed a line which the said clerk had made.

Seeing which, her little son told his father when he returned that he

must not cross the line; or said he, “the clerk will serve you as he did

mother.”_