A ■well-known K.C., the 'Daily News' says, once took tip a brief for nothing and ■won the case. The grateful client, however, sent a postal order for 15s, which he accepted, through fear of giving offence by sending it back. At the Bar mess one of the barristers jocularly accused him of unprofessional conduct in accepting less than gold. " Excuse me,''.replied the K.C, "butl took all the poor beggar had. T consider'that., is not uiiprofessional." The weather forecasts which nppear in the morning papers of Great Britaui each day cost the country. £6,000 a year. for broncbijil odttght and colds, Woods'
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Evening Star, Issue 12899, 23 August 1906, Page 8
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101Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 12899, 23 August 1906, Page 8
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