“Live and Learn.”—Magistrate. “Do you know the nature of an oath, my boy?”
Witness (promptly): “Yess, sir. Must take it, sir—’relse I can’t be ’memb’r o’ Parl’ment, sir!”
THE COUNSEL’S TEAR
If Faraday’s or Liebig’s art
Could crystallise this legal treasure,
Long might a pleader, near his heart,
The jewel wear with chuckling pleasure.