Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-12-26

we snail never drink q glass or wine with
him aga n when to their momentary alarm
and subsequent delight the dead man inter-
posed with faint assumption of POPULARITY,
But you will, though, and good many, too,
hope. When the undertaken called, he was
sent away a genuinely sorrowful man and
rhe young lawyer, who was not dead yes,'
lived to old age and good purpose"
WITNESSES.
" Few stories relating to witnesses are more
laughable than that which describes the math-
ematical process by winch MIR. Baron Psrros
arrived at the value of certain conflicting evil
dence. Gentlemen of the jury this Judge
is reported to have sad, in summing up the
evidence in trial wheTa the witnesses had
sworn with nctlc tenacity OF purpose, there
are Ii fteen witness who swear that the wa
tercouTsa usea to dow In q ditch on the north
side Of the hedge. On the other hand, gen.
tlemen, there are nine witnesses who swear
that the watercourse used to flow on the
south side of the hedge. Now, gentlemen, if
YOU subtract nine from fiftesn, there remain
six witnesses wholly uncon lradicted; and L
recommend you to give your verdict Tor the
party who called those six Witnesses
This process, however. was hardly SO clever
as taat of the Irish prisoner accused OF steal
ing shirl from hedge. - Here three
people who saw You take it, said the magis-
! tratc a. Bad luck TO them, exclaimed PauG-
heer, can br,ng SIX honester people who'll
swea7 they didn't sea uis take it
| LAWYERS QUARRELs IN TRAVELLING.
" Barris5ers posting through the country
saw lar too much OF each other Bickeun2
and feuds arose {; and sometimes the S I'D ap
prentices having ordered the horses to stoT
exchanged shots at the hallway house OF
long posting stage. Even where they restrain
ed themselves from expressions o! hostility
mutual seit respect was utterly destroyed by
undue familiarity No Judge ever named a
guardian ID his children, Or even as execu tor
the brother ClrcuItcer WIN y hom he was won
| 20 post in dats when they were at the bar
, Greatly conducive 10 thess petty squabble
was the ITkscme slowness OF travelling. .
course the lawyers in good practic- worke
at their papers wnIle the posters cantered u
hill and down dale q, the average rate of eigh
OF niaa miles per hour; tut brief IS Juniors
d unless they were and most exec ptiona
: IN posters, could net through = long day
drive leigh earnest application TO the .tate
nents OF dummy bgleis. Usually they short
oned the hours with cards or dice; and wher
e ,our men rosted together in dou ble-seate
. coach, they would play whist table mad
T by "a plank fitted inco the windows 0t the Cal
riage.
b 1hi= Gus. ON gave rise 10 Z painful scauds
. concerning 4 baTr.ster, vino. after wlnnin
:, high honors III his profession, is still alive
p The story may be told ouC the great man
: name mus bo held secret. Many years sinC
: tie lawyer ioS. an aged aunt, whose will r.
d CURED ner body 70 Dc inferred III dlstar
a ! part u the countrv. Like dutiful nephew
G ana in l. manner becoming his aunt's exect
: tor, the young barrister, together with otht
= gentlemen CLOSELY connected with the decea
2, e1 lady by blood or buslness), jJurneyed frol
2 London To tae place 81 sepu.tu1e. The hears
/ containing the eM 5almsd body had been sci
u torv aId, ant the raousnrrs followed /; a. q
e interval ot = fsW tay- journey. Tee hr
Z day was very tedious; md as seVerai ia
would iotJw as ere t1a place OF lntermei
is could be reached, the nephew on the secor
-e morning Of Iba GO40Toui expedition prOposi
a. to his oompaniOns IN grieE tAat taey snou
< have rubber. lie had cards IN his pocke
is and a. the nexl rosdslde Inn shey could ge.
le ! board taas would serve them lOr i table.
?, The sucges !On was unanimously adoE
ed aud throughout the remainder OF u
d comforiless prosre =, tho EiOurners play
Is steadily win c9muiete indifference To q
B. scenery which surrounded them, and wi
he 0laat Au tI4t, i vO- tO t,4c game WIN
I'd characterized whis.-players hat . centu
ID sinco. Under Inc ciEcunstances the mour
i; aIs progressed as iavoFabiy as could be (
s. pae;eu. Their spirits rose nuch mon
!y changed hands aud when the four gentlem
Us TODD III the o.d Iady's m.usoleum, the tN
. whJ hal wen were sustained by au enlveni
Of sense OF worldly prosI er,1y, and the two "
had lost thTsted loV revenge on the hOmewa
- 5utney. Unfortunately, however, certain
=, oal gos,ips OF the purli.nlcal district wht
- lhs Oh laGv was buried, had either seen t
- inourners al whist or heard how they anus
n themselves. The story passed from mouth
-, mouth, anu reached London aimoso soon
or Jhe melancholy whisc-players. OF course
ar London the story Iyed' and years aiterwar
al snen the nephew had rs-n to eminence
~ roii,ics and Jaw. people We're told at dinn
- partIes how the great lawyer had taken
a aunts b.dy from London so Scotland, pla
~ M cards on her CONN throughout the ent
10. Journey"