never yet successfully accomplished-so I suppose that, as usual, it will be made up for him by somebody else; as for the other, after three hours' reflection, he has really come to a decision, but, unfortunately, it is entirely opposed to every thing that the judge will tell them in his summing-up, and of course they will all be led by his lordship.

My lord will take them in hand kindly, explain away both counsel for plaintiff and for defendant, and read them a great deal of his notes, which are a thousand-fold clearer, fuller, and more accurate than the reporter's "flimsy," although during the trial he has been distinctly seen to write four long letters, has gone twice to sleep, and has made seven recondite legal jokes, including the famous ever-recurring and side-splitting innuendo of

THE COUNSEL.

calling upon the usher to cry silence, or "Sss-h!" | Bullhead, who, having diluted his ordinary keenwhenever the somewhat indistinctly speaking junior for the plaintiff rises-there will be no withstanding his clear-headedness.

As you would imagine, these jurors have been in turn led away by the opposing counsel. For the plaintiff; they were made to admire the consummate common sense and discretion of the plaintiff,

ness with that admirable faith in human nature
which is the keystone of all commercial transactions
in this Arcadian world, has for the first time in his
life found his confidence misplaced by the conduct
Said the advocate: far be it from
of the defendant.
him to call Floater, Esq., M.Q.S., by any derogatory
appellations; he was not a swindler, he was not a

THE DEFENDANT.

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rogue, he was not a wolf in sheep's clothing, he was perhaps the victim of a misconception or a want of memory, but a very honorable man all the same-an opinion which the jury would heartily indorse by giving full damages to his discreet and sensible client.

find a few spots upon the purest white. Thank goodness, they have the attorneys to throw the blame upon when there happens to be any, and the attorneys sitting under the bar, and putting their heads together, have, I suppose, shoulders broad enough to bear it.

These two do not look ingenuous: here is the smooth and the rough. The rough one never seems to believe a word that is said to him, while the smooth one appears to take in every thing. The one, half shutting his eyes, draws his face down and his forehead up into all the fifty lines of unbelief, while Smoothman drags his cheeks into such a lovely smiling look of faith in every thing you have to propose, that you really begin to wonder how that underhung jaw and knitted brow came into the same company. Well, there is not very much to choose between them.

But, said the counsel for the defendant-a foxy man with reddish hair, angular eyes, and a mouth that seems to have a hole punched in each end of it: he would not call Mr. Bullhead a villain of the deepest dye, he would not say that he had laid a plot to blast the happiness of the domestic hearth of his unfortunate, his scrupulously respectable, and he would add his distinguished client; no, not he-far from it, he would suppose that an obtuseness of intellect on the part of the, at all events, short-tempered plaintiff, had led him to imagine, and so forth. And by-the-way, notice how these foxy counsel do cuddle themselves up, how they look askance, and wrig- So we will say that this trial has gone against the gle about to show their honesty and straightforward- angry plaintiff; that it is one more feather in the ness-for indeed I suppose we must admit that they cap of Foxy, Q.C., and money in the purse to Floatare honest and straightforward from their point of er, M.Q.S.; that the jury are aware of having supview, although they do shake their heads at his ported the glory of the English nation and the malordship whenever a particularly damaging state-jesty of the law; that the learned judge, disrobed ment is put forward by the opposite side, and al- and unwigged, is no longer a good old lady, but a though they do paint black with a gray tint, and distinguished gentleman.

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"ABOUT forty-five years since, Colonel PRevolutionary veteran, but with all his youthful fondness for fun, kept a public house, which was :nuch frequented in the long winter evenings by a number of the citizens, for the purpose of enjoying themselves in a social chat.

"On one of these occasions our conversation turncd upon feats of activity, especially in jumping; and almost every one present had some tale to tell, either of how far or how high he could jump or had ever jumped.

en in years, had been an uncommonly athletic and active man, listened with much apparent interest to our several tales, and when we had all spoken, he arose, and remarked,

"Well, gentlemen, I suppose you expect me to have something to say?'

"Yes, Colonel; we are anxious to hear you.' "Well, gentlemen, I don't know as you will believe it, but I pledge you my honor it is a fact, that I have seen the time when I could jump-yes, gentlemen, when I could jump-as far as ever I could