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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 139, 9 December 1911, Page 14

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Eesource in. dealing tactfully with the unexpected is a quality possessed by most successful barristers, but one may doubt if they are often placed in a more awkward position than the following:— A youthful revising barrister, who has since attained very high judicial irank, was once touring in Wales. It is the duty of the civil authorities to detail a policeman for attendance at the Envision* Court for the maintenance of order and decorum, and the revising barrister in question had occasion to direct this arm of the law to remove from the court a fisherman who had obviously been drinking. ' ' Ab the end of the day the court adjourned, and the barrister intimated that he would return at the end of a week to complete the business left unfinished. The appointed day arrived, and the barrister wa6 sitting at breakfast in the hotel when the waiter announced that a visitor wished to see him. The village policeman was ushered in, saluted, and spoke as follows -—"Begging your lordship's pardon, but I wish to know what is to be done with the prisoner!" Visions of an action for false imprisonment if not of professional ruin floated before the barrister's eyes, but he kept his head, and directed that the victim should be brought before him in private. Having harangued him on the enormity of his offence, he presented him with two sovereigns, and told him to go away and lead a better life.