Legal Wit.—A practical joke was once attempted to be played on Mr. Erskine, as he went one day to Westminster Hall, with his ample bag crammed full of briefs. Some waggish barristers hired a Jew's boy to go and ask him if he had '* any old clo' to sell?" ■" No, you little Hebrew imp," exclaimed the indignant counsellor, "they are all ■ new suits!"•■■/ . • ' , ■ .• ; A storekeeper in Worcester,.Massachusetts, advertised ten pounds of sausages for a dollar, whereupon the Boston See exclaims— dog cheap.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XI, Issue 670, 9 April 1859, Page 6
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