In Cork, the crier of the Court, anxious to disperse the crowd around the bar, exclaimed, “All ye blackguards that isn't lawyers, quit the Coort 1 ” A man who was brought before the Belfast magistrates the other day on an unsustained charge of detaining a dog, was styled “ Pat Doran, ratcatcher to Her Majesty and the Lord Lieutenant.” A lawyer in a certain city in Connecticut, not remarkable for his cleanliness of person, appeared at a party a while ago with a rose ia his button-hole. “Where do you suppose it came from ?” said he to a brother lawyer who was admiring it. The latter looked up and down the entire length of the questioner and with great deliberation responded, “ Why, I suppose it grew there.”
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2161, 9 April 1870, Page 2
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126Untitled Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2161, 9 April 1870, Page 2
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