SHORT STORIES.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 4, 9 April 1920, Page 10

SHORT STORIES.

A good story that Mr Plowden tells is about the wife of a notorious burglar wLom he was once cross-examining. "You are the wife of this man?" asked counsel. "Yes." "You knew he was a burglar when you m&rried him?" "Yes." "How came you to contract a matrimonial alliance with such a man?" "Well," witness admitted, "I was getting old, and I had to choose hetween a burglar and a lawyer." A worthy judge, M. Barboux, the emin»nt Fxench Dawyer, who died recently, was wellknown as an after -dinner speaker and had a wonderfnl fnnd of good laweoart stories. Perhaps the best of thera Is the conversation. which M. Barboux decLared that he overheard in the lobby outside the divorce court one afternoon. "Well, how did you get on?" "Splendidly. I got my divorce and oare of the child. The judge was on my sida, you know." KA. friend of yours?" |rWell — not a friend exactly. He used tt» be my wife's first husband."