[Illustration]
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[Illustration: AT THE HEAD OF THE PROFESSION.--Scene: _Prisoners’
waiting room adjoining police-court. (Eminently respectable director
awaiting examination.)_
_Artful Dodger (to Charley Bates)._ “You’ve been copped for a till--and
me for a cly. But ’e’s been copped for a bank--shared somethin’ like
six million swag among the lot!”
_Charley Bates (in a tone of respectful admiration)._ “Lor!”]
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[Illustration: “On there! Pass along!” (_Exeunt._) _Antony and
Cleopatra_, Act III., Sc. 1.]
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We scoff at savages who bow down before strange idols, yet we
invariably “worship” the bench.
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“It is very odd,” said Serjeant Channell to Thessiger, “that Tindal
should have decided against me on that point of law which, to me,
seemed as plain as A B C.” “Yes,” replied Thessiger, “but of what
use is it that it should have been A B C to you, if the judge was
determined to be D E F to it?”
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A THOUGHT IN THE DIVORCE COURT.--There is a wide difference between the
judge ordinary and an ordinary judge.
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