The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-11-27
A"LY4F@ WANTED.


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#.aIfer uf th8aGrm Mr.. sl1cuft, @
alsnt; JACK wallace The clerk ana
m 4loeum had, for thc lat hali
Hal#. been hulziug hi7 attorney ear
Wifb a long and questionable statement
#.fGf- business affairs, with reference 20
U,Eiug ont q case Of voluntary bank
grgfcy. from which he might emerge q
rttIe better off than he went in. Jack
Ul4 busy drafting q letter to some non
resident client, explaining the delay IN
fbe litigation Of said ,%client's interests;
while I was drawing up an affidavit Tor
achange Oh yenuea' in u case, which am
dtrit stated that | believed the Judge to
be prejudiced, etc.
hus the very occupations that three
Of MS were about, and the profession oil
the fourth, nlada the interrogatory, rs
the lyar fuPh take upon itself, to each OF
us. a particularly home character.
70 be called Il liar is, by common
consent. deemed to be an insult proper
w answered only by q blow. Yet, LET
the exasperating idea knock at the door
of conscience in the shape of n mild, in
poeont interrogation point, it will scarce.
Nv obtain from any one of us so rude q
49, /. Ga v,yr aNRRistinD that nj
most any one not Il Pharisee, having the
portal of his room suddenly thrown
open, and the question, &" Is the liar IN p
injected upon his meditations, Will Zee
like hesitating before he answers NO
But most of allamI assured that no 6ev,
Of attorneys and clients, invaded b,
so ominous an inquirer, will dismiss hin
with q .pegatiye, till a pretty thorough
canvass of the party has been made.
As for myself, in this case, as
Glanced down at the unfinished aihda
Wit before me, ] felt like responding
present" My private opinion is
and yours would have been, too, II you
had been there-that every one else Il
the room felt the SAME way.
The questioner was a country-lookln'
chap of middle age, and evidently
German, or, as we used to call tn
Rhinelander in those days, and wit
no intentional disrespect either,
Dutchman.n
You know the story about the dark
who called his dog "Trumps?'' Com
here, Trumps! Nice fellow, Trumps!
Then, turning to d b~ystander, "Say
boss, does We know why l calls dat dor
TrumpsPr' 'sNo, | can't imagine.
"Kase OATS his name, Yah, yah;
Well, that is the reason we called u
Germans Dutchmen, because we SUI
posed that was their name.
The questioner, as | said, was a Gel
man. He wanted a lawyer, and "lyal
was as near as his tongue could get
it. And to the minds of most people,
suppose, that was plenty near enoug
$50 YOU want u liar, do yep sa
Skinnem, looking quizzically aroui
the o at each Of us, "That mt
mean you, Slocum,'' he continue
turning to his client.
Slocum turned red in the face, /
parried the home-thrust by saying TIL
though he did not claim that tru
would die with him, he thought he h
not got to that pass when he should
StlbcbGu OUT VI IL lbSG VI iuNgClP W.
a liar was wanted.
Then Skinnem concluded that 1t v
Zone of the boys"-as he used to {
Jack and me-that was wanted.
said that he would certify, when we
finished the Jobs before us, to Il qu'
f~ications to fill the bill.
In. the meantime, our "Dutchma
showed signs of excitement and i'm
tience. He said he "must have n ]
straight, quick out. Der lyar must
nit him in der sleigh, und drive IKE
dayyil to Pretzelberg.n Pretzelberg
a German settlement some 9 miles
He further gave us to understand tn
friend of his was under arrest,
about to be tried for larceny, and M
ed the services of "a lyar' to defend
There was no time to communicate
details of the case, but they mus
learned on the way, o the man m
be tried, sentenced, and hung, by ID
Justice, before his counsel got there
Wen, neither of the firm would L
of going, and jack could not leave
correspondence. I had never tax
hand at a trial in my life, but
Dutchman was so pathetic in his {
estness to have some one accom-
him, thatI put on my o%vercoat, pI,
up a couple of law-books, and tool
place in the sleigh.
The sleighing was splendid, the h
strong and spirited, and We flew
II that 6 miles like the wind. My
could not talk much English, and
could understand from him of the
was, that his friend, Peter Stuben,
charged with stealing some han
longing to a neighbor; that the
had been found in the possession
accused; and that a jury had al
been ~impaneled for his trial-a bri
terval only having at last been or
70 enable him to send TO town
lYar.'