"Then, I suppose I must die. Will the Act allow me to do that?"
"You, as a Barrister, ought to know best, my dear Sir. What is your idea?"
"My idea?" echoed the considering Jones. "Well, I should say—— But, stay; I am not entitled to give a professional opinion until to-morrow morning! Still, offhand I may observe, that such an illegal death would savour of positive suicide; but it would not matter very much, as under existing circumstances suicide in some form or other seems to me inevitable!" And Jones was right!
MAXIMS FOR THE BAR. NO. V.
"A Curate may be cross-examined with comparative safety."
IN THE KNOW.
(By Mr. Punch's Own Prophet.)