Client. Well, really, that seems to me very generous! Isn't it rather unusual?

Solic. Unusual! Oh dear no! Why, it's the practice of the whole profession!

[Curtain.


Chilly Kind of Holiday.—The Standard of Friday last, in a leading article on legal reforms, expressed its opinion that, "the Judges cannot be expected to take their vacation 'in shifts.'" Mr. Justice Punch quite concurs, and quotes from the same article to the effect that such a proceeding would be "neither a practicable nor a proper one."