Smithson. "A—a—isn't he—a—a—hadn't I better help you to Pull at him?"
Driver. "Pull at 'im? Why yer'd set 'im crazed! Jist you let me keep 'is 'Ead straight. Lor bless yer, there ain't no cause to be affeared, as long as we don't meet nothing, and the Gates ain't shut at Splinterbone Crossing, jist round the Bend!"
THE LITIGANTS VADE MECUM.
Q. What is your opinion about Chancery?
A. That, thanks to work being given to Solicitors in preference to Barristers, litigation is more expensive in that branch of the science than in any other.
Q. How comes it that this should be so?
A. A Barrister is forced to do his best for his client, but a Solicitor is not. As a rule the Solicitor deputes to his Chief Clerk if he has one, or somebody in the office if he has not, the duties of conducting a suit through Chambers.
Q. What is the practical result of this arrangement?
A. That a suit when it once gets into Chambers takes a precious long time in coming out.