WHAT'S IN A NAME.
A lawyer who was sometimes forgetful, having, been engaged to plead tho cause of an offender, began by saying. "I know tho prisoner at tho bar, and ho hears tho character of being a most consummate and impudent scoundrel." Hero somebody whispered to him that the prisoner was his client, when ho immediately continued: '"But what great and good man over lived_who was not calumniated by many of his contemporaries?*'
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLV, Issue 10464, 17 December 1919, Page 4 (Supplement)
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74WHAT'S IN A NAME. New Zealand Times, Volume XLV, Issue 10464, 17 December 1919, Page 4 (Supplement)
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