TOP AND BOTTOM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 267, 10 November 1934, Page 7 (Supplement)

TOP AND BOTTOM.

Craven Street, Strand, London, was once remarkable for the number of lawyers residing there. It may he remembered, too, that the Thames flows at the bottom of the street, where coal barges are frequently moored. On one occasion a dinner party was given by one of the Arundel Street fraternity. A gentleman present, not a lawyer, for the sake of eliciting fun, wrote the following verse on a slip of paper and Jianded it to the president:— "In Craven Street, Strnnd, ten attorneys find place, And ten heavy coal barges are moored at Its base. Fly, Honesty! from this craven retreat, For there's craft, in the river, and craft in the street." The sally, was cleverly matched by a lawyer, who handed the following witty reply to the president: — "Why should Honesty fly from the great retreat ' Of the lawyers and barges, od rot em ! When the lawyers are 'just' nt the top of ' tho street, Aud the barges are 'just' at the bottom ;