FEEING HIS OPPONENT'S LAWYER.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 109, 21 January 1880, Page 2

FEEING HIS OPPONENT'S LAWYER.

A few weeks since A summoned B to the Magistrate's Court but sooner than interview the Bench tho amount was paid to the clerk prevjous to the time for hearing. In settling- -the- account, however, the lattor forgot the little item of the lawyer's fee, and hence the case went before the Court, and judgment was entered for one guinea extra. B paid the amount under protest, and straightway rushed to the nearest member of tho Brigade to obtain professional advice upon his liability. The Oracle was dumb until half a soy., was produced, when his client was informed that the claim was a perfectlyjlegitimate one, and that his professional brother — who ever he might have been,— was qui^e justified m his demand. B went away ; quite happy, and no doubt would have been to this hour, but meeting a friend to whom hi told the circumstances, the friend wishing to put him at his case,~ informed him that his late legal adviser had been hU opponent's counsel, and that the advice just given would put the extra guinea iuto his (the adviser's) pocket. Had a comet upon the scene at that moment he would hayo had littlo difficulty m arriving at the conclusion that B was not a religious man, aud that strong language was his forte. Since then he has become a disciple of Dick's who advised Jack Cade — " The first thing^ we do, }et's kill all the lawyers.'*