(_By one of the Briefless_)
_Member of the Upper Bar (perusing Assize List)._ Shall I go round this
time? Hum. Let me see. “Muddeford”--can get a day’s hunting there, I
think. “Wandsbury”--go over to the Chilstons for Sunday, and have a
jolly afternoon with Lily. “Swanston”--wouldn’t do any harm to go and
look up Uncle George. “Leamouth”--excellent quarters at hotel there;
fair dinner, too. “Deddingham”--good murder case; shouldn’t like to
miss it. Yes, I think I’ll go round as far as that, and get back to
town in time for the boat-race.”
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REFORM OF THE LAW.--Chancellors, ex-Chancellors, and King’s Counsel,
are members of a society for the reform of the law. They meet and
denounce the wickedness of costs, and then hie away to practice. This
reminds us of a passage in Borrow’s _Gipsies of Spain_:--“And now, my
dears,” says the head of the family to the younger branches--“now you
have said your prayers, go out and steal.”
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[Illustration: LONG VACATION
“Now then, Latitat, tuck in your six-and-eightpenny!”]
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