A LESSON IN LAW.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 2 May 1891, Page 4

A LESSON IN LAW.

' A young lawyer who has been practising

for three or four years received one Christmas present which he did not appreAate.. It was a nice enough present, but--vvdll. uh& whole story had better be told. One Christmas morning a messenger Zw>y brought to the young attorney's house a. package done up in brown paper and t.ed with very offensive-looking string. iTp carried the package into the dining-room, where his wife sat at breakfast. The wrapper was removed, and on the top a card — a plain visiting card — lay. The young lawyer saw it, and heaven preserve us ! blushed. The card bore the name of a client of his whose case he had conducted laboriously and expensively to defeat. " What does he mean by sending me- ai present ?" he asked. " The last time he was in my office I felt inclined to pitch him out of the window." " Perhaps he wants to make up at Christ* mas time, dear," his gentler half suggested 1 . as she proceeded to rip up the white paper with a silver hairpin, in a few seconds, a couple of volumes, covered in law-sheep, were revealed, The attorney took one of the books up, and read tlie title, " BlackStone's Commentarie.-;, vol.1." The other book was vol. 11. " What in thunder does lie mean by sending me this ?" he asked fiercely. " I am sure I don't know, dear," said she, meekly. r. There was an uncomfortable silence for several minutes. Then the attorney said, wilh considerably more emphasis than can be reproduced in words : — " Now I know what the fool meant by saying when he left me that he would teach me the rudiments of law, if he had to spend good money to do It. But I thought he was going to sue me."