Lawyer's Fees.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3001, 12 September 1888, Page 3

Lawyer's Fees.

There is a moral imperfectly concealed in this little story.—The other day I strolled in the office of a legal . firm to exchange the compliments of the season with one of the partners. This having been satisfactorily accomplished, I was holding him entranced by the eloquence with which I was discoursing upon several Bubjeots at once, when the door opened and the other partner with something uncommonly like a grin on his face, waving the while a cheque for an smount which. I would gladly have picked out of the gutter. " Goodline 4 this heremarked;" chequefrom Jones for coats in Smith's case," "Yes" said Ms partner, "how rnuoh?" "Full amount, by Blackstone" ejaculated the other, slappinghis thigh, and thoy both laughed so much that I asked to be allowed to stand in, "Well you see it's funny. Jones retains us to work in Smith's case. We do it, Jones good client so we do the fair thing; our charges come to £7O, really as low as we could make it. We make out account and are just on the point of sending it iu, when we hear that Smith has expressed bis intention of having account taxed. Couldn't do it any lower than £7O you know, so we sent in-account for £95, reckoning that L 25 would be cut off, and, ecod sir, tho account has not been taxed at all," and tho unfeeling brute waved a cheque for the amount in my face,—Weekly Press.