Lawyers in Texas.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 8 (Supplement)

Lawyers in Texas.

A Stockton lawyer was at San FianeLsco the other day, and while watching a largo funeral wind slew ly along to the hills he was accosted by a tall fellow, who-se sunburned face was eavesboarded by the wide brim of a slouched hat. " Could you tell me," asked tho stranger, politely, " whose turnout that is ?" "Yes, sir," answered the man sharply. "Thank you. And whoso i* it ?" "Tho undertaker's." "Ah ! And may 1 ask who the corpse was ?" "You may." " Thank you. And who was he ?" "A lawyer." it j^ » The stranger paused as if doubtful of his ears, looked at the law man earnestly, and said, in an eager jou-don'l-say-so soit of voice : " Did you say a lawyer ?" " Yes, sir ; a lawyer." "H'm ; that's strange." " I don't see anything strange about it," retorted tho attorney, slightly nettled. " Well," cx]>lained the other suavely ; " you sec, we don't bury lawyers that way down in Texas, uherc I came from." "No?" " No, When a lawyer dies there we put him in the third story of a vacant building, you know/ Ho paused with aggravating calmness. " Well !" "And then we go up tho next day, and the corpse is gone." "Cone?" " Yes, sir." " Gone where ?" "That's the mystery," replied the Texan, shrugging his shoulders ; " nobody knows where.'' " Why, that's the strangest thing I ever heard of !"' "Yes," said tho mild Texan, " but that ain't the queerest thing about it, either." "No." "No. There's a terrible smell of brimstone left in tho room." They paited with mutual dislike.