The New York herald., 1868-06-03
JUDGE AND JURY CLUB.



Club met last evening. Time. nine O'Clock p. N
Pl ace, No. 2 Irving place, d.,hsed the Arsenal
ORA psatts persona, three English wigs with head
in thel H. three English gowns or the law with bodies
In them and jury Of somewhat more than twelve
some viii mugs OF ale In their hands, some with
glasses Of not whskey just under their noses, some
with cigars IND few with pipes some with their
hats on and So ne with their hats Off General air o
matters rather zee and easy. Business, rehearsal
OF parody OF Pick w,ck against Bardell, Barde
against pickwck, quite the same in essentials. with
alterations and emendaops not intended for parlor
reading. young man at tue door receives certain
items In the way OF admission fees; another young
man behind the bar receives certain items In the way
OF remuneration for drinks; thisd young @an acts
the very gentlemanly part OF usher.
These the obvious facts as to the meeting OF
the club, which has It's precedents In London Bohe-
mianism, aud OF the doings of which lin Londonl
Dickens has drawn an expurgated picture III the
trial OF Mr. Pckwck In the case OF last evening" Sam
Weller had been supplanted by sam LongstaH; MI
Pckwick had been netanorphosed Id the snobbtsh
master OF Brandco villa and was vulgarly nicknamed
Mr. Fumbler; Mrs. Bardell reappeared as some
body or wdowish aspect whose name might have
been Dacotah could the Dacotahs ever have been
guilty of an attempted witticsm in names; and as
TO the eXpurgated passages OF the Pickwlck trial,
they had been all restored with the further addf-
tion OF monstrous doubles e7tendfes calculated TO
CAUSE u person OF ordinary ucnCaCy 10 WASH HIS
ears very carefully with soap and water after hear.
ing them having been so unlucky US to be compelled
TO hear them at all.
The Judge was a Jolly. rubicund.visaged ndi-
vidual; the lawyers, who should have been named
Qup and Qurk respectively, 1t being most OF their
business TO quip and Guirk and qubble so as
TO wiring double meanings out OF things in them
selves very innocent, were either or them armed
with mug of ale which ever and anon they tipped
set OF lunatics that ever elOped from Bedlam and
afterwards met together by themselves In accord
wi rfa1 t1nf Hlrpnln V9lC W r.
Qup, the lawyer on the right, was wigged; Mr..
Quirk, the lawyer on the left was wlgged Mrs.
Bardell, alias the unpronounceable name was wgged
besides wearing JACK boots and susplcously exhibit
Ting in the way OF an ance, as she stepped into the
witness stand the lower part Of the leg OF pair OF
and testified considerably after the manner OF Mrs.
Bardell in the Pickwick affair. but with additions
not yet printed ana hardly printable though per-
haps Mr.. Dickens may hereafter be persuaded TO
incorporate them in appendix, with MS notes OF the
also testified, as did Miss Lottie Pettiquod, the
Widows confidential servant, Mr. sam LongstalI,
alias sam Weller and Dr. Quackenboss, alias DR..
Quack-the latter for the defence.
To attempt description would be to send English
begging for terms with which to express delicately
that which is in its very essence indecate and even
atrociously vulgarjust escaping obscurty by being
so sugarcoated witls doggere Latin as to evade the
mputation OF directly expressed indecency In the
mode Of gliding the pill OF indecacy there was
nothing original: In the nomenclature nothing
original: in the humor Of the phrasing nothing that
could not be found in the quaint old law
travesties of 'Towel against Dishcloh;" in the
doggrel Latin nothing orginal; In the doubles
entendres nothing original, not even their bald
vugarty. 1t is curious what notions OF humor some
| people have; 1t Is equally true that some people
apt 10 be amused where others would be disguised;
it is furthermore true that some people are in the
habit OF termpg that "racy" which is abominaby In
decent. 'Racy," "gve us something racy,n Every
racy, are regular editorial phrases In the Bohemian
| newspaper offices. They mean simply vugarty
wanted aud nothing more. That the new trial
played last evening sufficiently racy 10 need
even little expurgati0n may as well be acknowl-
edged, though had Its racness been in the least de-
gree original the manuscript would nave commanded
lie best rales among the buyers o. "BGck Crook
literature. Being uuorigina % would hGrdly sell
thngah 90 sell Che public Was.andoub;cGly con
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