THE LAWYER'S BOY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3165, 20 August 1881, Page 4

THE LAWYER'S BOY.

Anybody who thinks that (.ho boy employed around a lawyer's offleo hns nothing to do but empty the paper basket, run to tho Post Office, sweep the room, and read the jokes of Blackstone, is grandly mistaken. A boy—that is, a prize of a boy, and one who will eventually become a great lawyer himself—has a heap on his mind, and no time for sling shots or tops. While a Detroit lawyer was in Court, with his boy in charge of the office, a newspaper man who was hunting through the Moffat, block stumbled upon the poung attorney and was received with " Come right in. The papers in your case aro ready to be signed." " What ease ?." " Application for divorce." " But I'm not the man." " Ain't you r Well, you look like him. Lot's see ? Are you the defendant in the Jones v. Brown case of trespass ? If so, lam to tell you that the case is put over until next Satm*day, afc the same hour in the afternoon." " No, lam not Brown." " Well, that's all right. Let's see again. I was to tell Ryan that his case against Peters for slander would not come on this lorm, and to suggest that he amend his ded.-iraiion. You have not given the dates whereon the defendant, called you ;i 'reptile' and ■> 'sneak.' " "But lam not Ryan." "Isthor so ? That's too bad but perhaps you can't help it. Was ifc your wife who eloped with a man named Blake ?" "No." "Then your are not Mr' Tern. I was to tell him that, he has forgot to state tbe particular time at which he first noticed a coldness in her demeanor. Let's see ? >>h ! there's that bigamy case. I was to say to the defendant that the prosecution appear to have hunted up and got hold of the testimony of a third female who claims to have married you in Toledo in 1864, and that your caie loots shaky. Wo will, however, do our best to pull you through, as we do all our clients." " Tou are off again ; I am not the man." " Dear me, that's another. '♦Veil, all right, I was to say to any new client that Mr would be back in an hour. Come in and sit down and look over the city directory. We will take your case at the lowest cash price, and do our level best to win it. Consult no other firm until you have given us a trial."