After dinner stories by famous men : . st fight, the sailor had gone on his last voyage,the fireman hath gone to his last fire. By Famous ]Men 51 CLARENCE DARROW, so it is related, when a veryjoung man, just startingout to practise law, wasonce retained by a mer-chant to defend him in asuit for damages brouglitby an employe. Unfortu-nately for ]\Ir. Darrow, hisclient completely lost hishead under cross-examina-tion, furnishing evidence sovastly favourable to tlieprosecution as to result ina four-thousand dollar ver-dict. The merchant, however,was highly indignant with his lawyer for havinglost
After dinner stories by famous men : . st fight, the sailor had gone on his last voyage,the fireman hath gone to his last fire. By Famous ]Men 51 CLARENCE DARROW, so it is related, when a veryjoung man, just startingout to practise law, wasonce retained by a mer-chant to defend him in asuit for damages brouglitby an employe. Unfortu-nately for ]\Ir. Darrow, hisclient completely lost hishead under cross-examina-tion, furnishing evidence sovastly favourable to tlieprosecution as to result ina four-thousand dollar ver-dict. The merchant, however,was highly indignant with his lawyer for havinglost the case, and allowed but a very short whileto elapse before he acquainted him of his feelingsabout it. If I had a son born an idiot, he blustered,^Id make him a lawyer. Your father seems to have been of anotheropinion, calmly rejoined ]\lr. Darrow. COL. JOHN BREATHITT, of Mexico, NewMexico, and Missouri, was in Washington a bitago extolling the j)rfcocioiisncss of his four-year-old son and In ir. , junior, liad eaten the. 52 iMter Dinner Stories inside of his toast at breakfast, leaving the crustsin the offing. His father reprimanded him. When I was a little boy I always ate thecrusts as well as the inside of my toast, hesaid. Did you like them? was the cheerful inquiry. Y-es. Do you like them now. pursued the joung-ster. Yes, very much. Well, you may have these, said the incor-rigible, benevolently |)iishing over the discardedcrusts. EX-GOVERNOR PATTERSON, of Tennessee,tells this story: Down in Nashville there is a darky, a carpen-ter by trade, with a local reputation for quicknessat repartee. Not many months ago Ephraim wassubpoenaed as witness before a justice of peaceat Nashville. Under severe cross-examination thewitness displayed great patience and self-control,and all went smoothly until Ephraim was ques-tioned as to his occupation. Is a cahj^enter, sah, he answered. What kind of a carpenter? Dey call me a jack-leg cahpenter, sah. Jack-leg carpenter? repeat
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