Regarding a certain judge:—
"Hence so many reversals by the Court of Appeal that suitors were often more uneasy if they lost their case before him than if they won it."—Irish Times.
We assume that they were Irishmen.
"Elderly Lady Requires Post, as companion, Secretary or any position of trust, would keep clergyman's wife in Parish, etc."—Church Family Newspaper.
But the difficulty with the parson's wife in some parishes, we are told, is just the reverse of this.
"Duck and drake (wild) wanted; must be tame."—Scotsman.
We dislike this frivolity in a serious paper.