THE DEVIL'S OWN.
At the forthcoming examinations. on August 6th ■ sixtjone applicants to be admitted to practice as solicitors will essay .their "little, go.V This is cheerful news. When any particular species of animal increases too rapidly, it either preys on itsown kind, or perishes of starvation. The lawyers will never, do the former. T.here is a code of honour existing between certain classes/of people which precludes that desirable consummation. Bo tli ere will,, be nothing for it, but to starve, or sell their wigs and gowns and invest the proceeds in a pick and shovel. The correspondent who forwards the above information adds the following verse : — < ■ Like swarms of locusts, onward speeding, Or mngirots in some carcass breeding, Or stuulfiies hi some morass bumming, _ Tins plngue, the devil's own, is coiningTo stfck our blood, and stintr and bite us, Aud with litigioiisness incite us. ' Ere long-, that phice we never mention, That's paved with every good intention, Will be too narrow to iiirord Accommodation for this horde. <>
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Observer, Volume 6, Issue 147, 7 July 1883, Page 243
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168THE DEVIL'S OWN. Observer, Volume 6, Issue 147, 7 July 1883, Page 243
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