"Attending bar!" exclaimed the lawyer; "attending bar! Why, I thought you were a teetotaler."
"So I am," declared the witness.
"And yet, sir, you have the audacity to assert that you peddle rum all day, and drink none yourself?"
"That is not a relevant question," said Barnum.
"I will appeal to his Honor the Judge if you don't answer it instantly," said the lawyer, gleefully.
"Very well; I do attend bar, and yet never drink intoxicating liquors."
"Where do you attend bar, and for whom?" pursued the lawyer.
"I attend the bar of this court nearly every day, for the benefit of two-penny lawyers and their greedy clients," replied the disgusted Barnum.
On another occasion a young lawyer who had been pushing his inquiries to a great length, said in a half-laughing tone of apology:
"You see, Mr. Barnum, I am searching after the small thing; I am willing to take even the crumbs that fall from the rich man's table."