THE MATTER EXPLAINS ITSELF.

Dunstan Times, Issue 600, 17 October 1873, Page 2

THE MATTER EXPLAINS ITSELF.

An awkward affair which once occurred to one of the Judges on the Western Circuit, has been the subject of much mirth. It appears that, having fiuishe I his labors and cast off his forensic wig at his lo Igingi ho had retired into the next room to wait for .his brother Judge, whom he was about to accompany to moot some of the local aristocracy at dinner. The font dc servant of the house, a rema kably good looking wench, had entered the bid-chamber hy a side door, and not knowing th it the Jnd*o was in'lhe next room, in a frolic arrayed herself in his wig. Just at the moment when the fair Mopsy was admiring herself in the looking-glass, the Judge unexpectedlv entered the room, and the poor gitl catching a sight of the stern countenance looking over her shoulder in the glass, nas so alarmed that she fainted, and would have fallen to the floor if the learned Judge impelled by humanity, had not caught her in his arras. At this critical moment' his brother Judge arrive 1, anl, on opening the dressing-room door, will a view to sea if he was ready, discovered his 'earned brother with the fainting maid in his arras The intruder quickly attempted to withdraw; when his brother Judge vociferated : “For heaven’s sake, stop and hear this matter explained !” “ Never mind my dear brother—the matter explains i: self!” and he left the learned Judge to hiiug the fainting maid to as Lest he could.