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"LAUGHTER IN COURT." The witness had explained that

A JUDGE'S STORIES. mono Judge Parry (o the Lambeth County Court), a renowned

wit," says

endowed with mother wit and know- the defendant said that, if he didn't ledge of the world learned in the hold his noise, he would "knock 'im lower strata of society, puts on the tréfa. Piny mandate The Land Chief nut- aloxan witte dan antizamisel, and what is meant by perch?"

"Oh, Perca, my lord-perch-yes —a perch is any position where a man elevates himself above his fei- lows-fer instance, a bench, my lord."

A laugh went round the court as

.

Abraham Lincoln loved to tell a stery against himself of the triumph of a yokel who killed a farmer's dog with a pitchfork and was sued for damaged..

"What made you kill my client's dog asked Lincoln.

me?" retorted the defendant.

"How much lies in laughter, the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man?" For laughter may be derisive, unkind, even cruel, or it may be rightly used as a just weapon the Lord Chief Justice bored gracio-What made him try and bite of ridicule wherewith to fight pre-usly, saying: "I am obliged to you. tension and humbug" or it may be Mr. Shee. You have made the use gracious and full of kindness, to put of the word quite clear to me." a man at his ease; or instinct, with There was a Scots advocate who good humour gracing a soft answer took reasonable exception to an. to turn away the wrath of the pedant English Lord of Appeal teaching how or stop the tediousness of the bore. to pronounce his own language: As when Lord Esher interrupted a The Scat had used the word "Enow," learned counsel at the fifteenth point and the Law Lord had explained to of his argument by saying,

him that in England we sound the "You cannot take that point. Mr."ough" as uff" and say "env" X, since you did not take it in the and not "enow." court below."

I was beginning to take it, my lord, when they stopped me."

"Stopped you. Mr. X." said Lord Esher in tones of astonishment. "And how did they do it?"

There was laughter in court as the learned counsel resumed his seat.

A court of law is certainly no place for the display of jocosity, but there are moments when humour is a use- ful relief from strain, and laughter in court does good.

"But why didn't you go for him with the other end of your pitch. fork "persisted Lincoln.

Well, why didn't he come at me with his other end? replied the witness smartly.

And the laughter of the jury show. ed Lincoln he had lost the verdict..

I suppose every judge in his day has come across a witness couim of -Sam Wellér. The best-I remember, "Very weel, my lord, replied the and he was too many for me, was advocate, "as your lordship pleases when I was sitting in Norfolk, and an and of this we have said enuff, and I amusing rascal gave a description of will ask your fordships cow to con- himself and his friends in a long sider the sub-division of the land in drawn out spree with the plaintifs !dispute. It was apportioned my pony and cart that ended in a smash lord, into what in England would be up on a country common. When- called pluff land- pluff-land being ever he was asked if he or his friends as much land as a pluffman can pluff we drunk he looked round to me in one day. Now pluffmer in "Seot with pained surprise and drawled out land;

"Drunk? What, me drunk? Na ay 1 war no more drunk nor your lordship."

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But the laughter in the sedate atmosphere of the House of Lords dissolved even their lordships solem. nity, and their culprit brother ex- pressed his apology to the learned advocate graciously "onow

At every, repetition of this phrase there was a round of local laughter. At the end I took him in hard and asked him a few questions as to what happened on the commcn.,

What was Bill doing?" I asked, "whilst witness put the pony back in the cart?"

"Bill" A. long panse of thought. 05, Bill 'e wor sittin 'th' 'edge, looking on."

"..Was Bill drunk?"

Give a dog a bad name and hang it; and judicial wit may go hang for me for truly it has a bad name enough. Yet there is some of it,chat I would preserve, which might be dis- And though all right-minded advo played in the museums of humour cates condemn anything of the side by side with the best efforts of nature of bullying-and this form of literary men, statesmen, or even ill manners is as much out of date divines.

⠀g in our law courts as it is in other The judge who said. "Truth will social spheres yet there are occasions leak out even in an affidavit," not when a case put forward by an im; only argused laughter in court, but pestor can be fairly and honestly told us in an'immortal phrase of the laughed out of court.

"What, Bill drunk? Na-ay, le. esential human value of personal Holker, in his inimitable way, could wor no more drunk nor your lord. paról evidence over mere prepared explode a mine of Jaughter under an ship." A second and more prolonged documentary evidence, which is one impostor when he wanted to. A Litter of the foundations of English justice. big, vulgar retired Jew jeweller! Well, what was the other man What again, can be better than who had led a young man into doing?" I asked., Bowen's description of an "equity extravagant ways and posed in ⠀ "Oh, you mean Tim. Let me see. when he summed up against the court as an unwilling plaintiff only Jimi wo lying on 'is back in the argument of a learned counsel who desirous to recover friendly loans, road. Some boys got 'old of Jim endeavoured to hide the wrong-doing received, a; knockdown. blow from and began draggin' 'îm by the Peels of his client on the ground of an Holker in the first round.

round the commen. E wor a bit equity in the case..

Holker tose slowly and indolently, drunk, e' wor.".

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I am reminded of a blind man "and looked the witness up and down | "Very-drunk, 'I should say,” com- (a judicial pause) in a dark room (a in a sleepy. dismal manner and i mented the court, severely. further thoughtful pause) looking for drawled out:

"Na-ay,”, dissented the witness,

Na-ay,"

a black hat (then by way of thought: "Well, Mr. Moselwein, and what | with deep seriousness. ful addition)which isn't there.

are you?"

gentleman?

doan't think so. It was sea air that It is far better that a kindly judge Agenschelman, replied the upset. Jim.Ed been to Shering- should be allowed to express his oc plaintiff with emphasis.

ham, and Jime ain't used to sea casional sense of weariness by a witty']"Just so, just go,” ejaculated air." courtesy than to say in plata langu. Holker with a weary yawn, “but age that time is being wasted, a what were you before you were a

'THE ADVOCATE'S "REPORTE Not that the judge has it all his own way. By no means. The ad. vocate more than often has the last and best word in the encounter, as when Lord Coleridge who not only

THE WITNESS SCORES. asserted judicial ignorance of Connie And in these witty encounters it is Gilchrist, but took pleasure in refus not always the judge or the advocate

The laughter made any effort at answer unncessacy, and was perhaps even, a welcome relief to the plaintiff.

ing to understand local forms of, dia, who is top dog. From the days, of fect was wittily exposed to laughter Sami Teller, the witness, and capec în court by my old friead Sheet ally the witness who is plentifully

The witness had that complete. simplicity and equanimity and cheer- ful sincerity that made it impossible to be angry with him.

But all witnesses are not witty of intention, though they cause laugh ter in court by their sayings,

But let us keep-nur-laughter wall within bound, remembering the words of the preacher that "to every thing there is a season; a time to weep and a time to laugh." metho

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