Bringing the Case to a Focus.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 264, 16 May 1888, Page 6

Bringing the Case to a Focus.

Blowskr and Brimblo are two quarrelsome neighbours of Virginia City, Nov. The other day Blowser called Rrimblc, who is rather thin, a ' dedicated coyote.' Brimblo made a minute of the statement, and then wont to a lawyer to see if he could not ha\e Blowscr arrested for libel. Tl)e disciple of Hlackstono, Coke and ' Auld Ciootie ' ran hit- legal eye over the old parchment cover of Brimble's 'soul ease' and .shook his head. '1 fear,' said ho with a high, 'that it is not actionable." ' No?' said Brimble. 'What, then, can I do with Blowscr?' 'Nothing, as matters stand; but wo may manage to biing things to a focus in -ome way that will give us a hold on the fellow. You go back to him and call him a posthumous jmmpei nickel. Try that to begin with; then, if necessary, we may ad\tince to something stronger and still not render oui.sclncs liable' 4 Call him a ' posthumous p\imperniekel,' shall 1 V Mes ; I think we'll start out- on that, and it it does not bung him to a focus actionable we will then proceed to biand him as a 'stultus schnadahupll ' or a 'gutta percha '.' 'Well, as to the 'posthumous pumpu nickel,' shall 1 -ay it to his face?' 'To his teeth -tlnou it into his \ er\. teeth!' An houi later Hi imhle came back to lv's legal adxisci with a watch fob cut o\ci his lett eve, two tionl teeth knocked out, and hi- \ippei lip pulled out beyond Uie end ot his no-e. 'Ah' ciied i lie wicldci ot the legal thundei bolts lubhing his h.u.ds w ith satis faction a- hi ga'ed upon the dil.ipidati d \ i-agv ot In-- client. 'All 1 .vhe.uK see tin lu-t tuutsotoui little^tiatauctn. Now wobeum to -t mil on solid We nia\ now open oiu ;uii-~ upon lilowsei on a eliai<jfe tit a---,tult and battei) 111 vet him tmed s.lO mil shall not di, u t;c \on o\ ( i oi <11-> to c.n i \ the w hole bu--iiH s-. lhioiiL r h • [\n[ L'ood Lout ' mib! I p,i\ and then onh '^et him \uu d >10 '1 iiiii^l ai know p ed'_;e, m\ iliai it How, tli.it mh h is the Mt nation as t he i a~e now MamU : l>ut \on nu\ m> back now while he i- lii>t .inu i e ( kit --_ and tall him a ■_Mitta peieha uan-li.nii h, and tlie ie-nlt w ill I>i olubh 1 1 1 - 1 ) ! \ n- m bnii"in" a eh.n ue ot <i--aidi withinteni to niuidti ' \o," --'uih -.ml Humble, '1 imicss 111 not pioce«d )>e\otnt the ' po>-t liii'uou--pumpi nnckcl tod. in 1 tecl like taking a Rsi betoi c < Diniueiu nig the ' g.uisb uu h ' hu-inL---