Legal Luminaries
Yours is certainly an unusual case, said the lawyer, and it will be necessary to consult a number of books.
So? queried the client.
Yes, answered the legal light, and we will begin with your pocketbook.
He had finished his speech at a dinner party, and on seating himself a lawyer rose, shoved his hands deep into his trousers pockets, as was his habit, and laughingly inquired of those present:
Doesn’t it strike this company as a little unusual that a professional humorist should be funny!
When the laughter that greeted this sally had subsided, Mark Twain drawled out—Doesn’t it strike this company as a little unusual that a lawyer should have his hands in his own pockets?
As a prisoner was brought before the judge for sentence the clerk happened to be absent. The judge asked the officer in charge of the prisoner what the offence was with which he was charged.