Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-02-13

that situation for many years, and
got to be well known in the legal pro-
fession. A brother of mine, who for
years was one of firm of solicitors
in Lincoln's Inn Fields, remembers
him well at this period, by meeting
him sometimes in his own chambers,
and sometimes in judges chambers.
My brother says he could not help
noticing him, for he bristled with in
telligence, and knew deal of law,
though he looked only boy.
The best of the joke is that this
clerk afterward turned out to be four
years older than that solicitor who
took him for boy.
He was now amongst books as well
as lawyers, and studied closely the
principles of law whilst the practice
was sharpening him. He was much
in the courts, and every case there
cited in argument or Judgment he
hunted out in the books and digested
it, together with its application in
practice by the living judge, who had
quoted, received or evaded it.
He was Baptist, and lodged with
a Baptist minister and his two daugh-
ters. He fell in love with one of
them, proposed to her, and was ac-
cepted. The couple were married
without pomp, and after the ceremo-
ny the good minister took them aside
and said: II have only two hundred
pounds in the world. | have saved
it, little at time, for my two daugh
ters. Here is your share, my chill
dren." He then gave his daughter
one hundred pounds, and she handed
it to the bridegroom on the spot. The
good minister smiled approval, and
they sat down to what fine folks call
breakfast; but they called it dinner,
and it was.
After dinner, and the usual cere-
monies, the bridegroom rose, and sur
prised them little. He said: II
am sorry to leave you, but | have
particular business to attend to. 1t
will take me just one hour"
OF course there was look or two
exchanged, especially by every fe-
male there present but the conf
dence in him was too great to be dis
turbed, and this was his first eccen-
tricity.
He left them, went to Gray's Inn,
put down his name as student for
the bar, paid away his wife's dowry
in the fees, and returned within the
hour.
Next day the married clerk was at
the office as usual, and entered on a
two-fold life. He worked as clerk
till five; dined in the hall of Gray's
Inn as a sucking barrister, and stud
led hard at night This was followed
by a still stronger example of dupli-
cate existence, and one without a
parallel in my reading and expert
ence. He became writer, and pro-
duced a masterpiece, which as re-
garded the practice of our courts be-
came at once the manual of attorneys,
counsel aud judges. The author,
though his book was entitled ''prac-
tice," showed some qualities of ju-
rist, and corrected soberly but firmly
unscientifc legislation and judicial
blunders.
SO here was a student of Gray's
Inn, supposed to be picking up in
that inn a small smattering of law,
yet, to diversity his crude studies, in
structing mature counsel and correct
ing the judges themselves, at whose
chambers he attended daily, cap in
hand, as an attorneys clerk. There's
an intellectual hotch-potch for you.
All this did not in his inn qualify him
to be barrister, but years and din
ners did. After some weary years he
took the oaths at Westminster, and
vacated by that act his place in Bish-
ops office, salary included, and was
a pauper-for an afternoon. But
work that has been long and tedious
ly prepared can be executed quickly
and adverse circumstances, wheI
Perseverance conjures them, turr
round and become allies.
The ex-clerk and young barristel
had plowed and sowed with such pair
and labor that he reaped with com
parative ease. Half the managing
clerks in London knew him and be
ieved in him. They had the ear O
their employers, and brought hin
pleadings to draw and motions t
make. His book, too, brought hin
clients and he was soon in full ca
reer as a junior counsel and specia
! pleader. Senior counsel soon foun,
that they could rely upon his zeal, ac
| curacy and learning. They began t
. request that he might be retained
with them in difficult cases, and b
5 became first junior counsel at the bar
: and so much for perseverance.
t Time rolled it's ceaseless course
5 and silk gown was at his disposal
Now popular Junior can not ALVEY
: afford to take silk, as they call il
: Iudeed. if he is learned but not elC
, quent, he may ruin himself by th
4 change. But the remarkable ma
: whose career / am epitomizing di
:. not hesitate he still pushed onward
e And SO one morning the lord chance
e lor sat for an hour in the Queen
i, bench, and Mr.. Robert Lush was al