If you found yourself confidential stenographer to the biggest lawyer in town, he'd know you, all rightby your loud dressing.

" On my return home, I repeated this conversation to a lawyer of my acquaintance, who told me that such a rule of evidence might do for the people in the moon, but it certainly would not suit us.

" "I tell you, mamark my word for itif old man Brookes ever finds out I'm sister to any of the crowd that runs with Charley Cox and Willie Waxter and those boys whose fathers he's lawyer for, it'll queer me for life in that officethat's what it will.

Then this queer little companya Denver bank-clerk, an ex-schoolmaster from Nova Scotia, an Irish-American lawyer from San Francisco, a Kentucky "Colonel" who had never smelt powder, and "the Boy" (who was no boy at all, but a man of twenty-two)these five set to work felling trees, clearing away the snow, and digging foundations for a couple of log-cabinsone for the Trio, as they called themselves, the other for the Colonel and the Boy.

"I spent an hour and a half in the yards adjoining the station before I found those two bits," explained the young lawyer with a simple earnestness not displeasing to the two seasoned men he addressed.

An' the lawyer at fust he didn't 'pear tew think very much of it; but Blossy, she got him ter call up some broker feller in 'York, an' 'Gee whizz!'

Disagreeable Lawyer to Vague Baronet: "You are ruined, and your estate is mortgaged to a Merchant Prince.

He was a man of education, of fortune, of courage, and a lawyer by profession.

Soldiers, not civilians, henceforth were to rule the world,a dreary thought to a great lawyer like Cicero, or a landed proprietor like Brutus.

Being the only lawyer on the delegation I naturally took this remark to myself, and I know that other American Commissioners held the same view of its purpose.

" It would not have been an easy thing to do, even for so good a lawyer as Mr. Foster, if Burgin himself had not saved them all trouble on that score.

The next record of consequence is from the "Volage" frigate, at sea, June 29, 1811, when he writes in a despondent strain to Hodgson, that he is returning home "without a hope, and almost without a desire," to wrangle with creditors and lawyers about executions and coal pits.

Griggs thought the young man acted more like an ordinary lawyer than a detective, and said so with a smile.

I wish you good-morning," and she bowed the lawyer out of the room like a tragedy queen.

And now the eminent K.C. brought forward and placed in the witness-box the very lawyers into whose hands the accused had then immediately placed the will.

the man who consults a lawyer without the preparatory retainer, is a wretch too deep-dyed to reform!"

"They've got a wonderful smart man there for a magistrate, I can tell you," added Joel, with emphasis, "and he ra'ally bore as hard on the major as a lawyer before a court.

" A silent pressure of the hand rewarded this encouraging reminder of sanguine friendship; and, after the depressed law-student had promised the Reverend OCTAVIUS to walk with him as far as the ferry in a few moments, the said Reverend departed for a hasty call upon the old lawyer across the street.

There are lawyers among them, he says, as well as jewel diggers and fishermen.

Many points were present to his mind which the lawyers between them would not allow him to explain properly to a jury.

When Tom Ryfe emerged through the heavy iron gate he whispered a deep and horrible curse, but his dark eyes shone and his whole face beamed into a ruffianly kind of beauty, when after a discreet pause, Miss Bruce followed the young lawyer through the same portal.

And that synne would puzzle all the Civell Lawyers in the kingdome.

"I couldn't sleep a wink, an' Blossy says not ter send word tew yew, 'cuz mebbe 't was a joke, an' to wait till mornin' an' go see Sam'l's lawyer down ter Injun Head.

We'll take a minister and a lawyer along with us.

The story of the "King and a poor Northern Man," 1640, also turns upon the tyranny of the lawyers over ignorant clients.