Nothing Like a Lawyer, After All.

Otago Witness, Issue 2401, 8 March 1900, Page 65

Nothing Like a Lawyer, After All.

Glbbs rushed into a- smart young solicitor's office the other day, in a great passion, and exclaimed :

"A wretched cobbler, Dibbs, has sued me for 15s for a pair of boots !" "Then you owe him 15s ':" "To be sure I do ; he's gone and sued me." "Then why don't you pay him if you owe him'r"

"Because he sued me ; when a man does that, I'll never pay him till it costs him more than he gets. ,1 want you to make it cost him all you can." "But it will cost you something too." "I don't care for that. What do you charge to begin with?"

"Thirty shillings, and more if there is much extra trouble."

"All right. There's the money. Now go ahead. ' '

No sooner was his client gone than the smart young lawyer stepped across to the cobbler and offered to pay the bill on condition that the suit was withdrawn. The shoemaker gladly agreed — all he wsnted was his paj-. The young solicitor kept the other 15s for his fee, and as the case was not troublesome, he mfde no further demand upon his client. Ten days after, Cxibbs came to see how his case was getting on. "All right," said the lawyer. "You won't have any trouble about that; I gave it to Dibbs so strongly that he was glad to withdraw the suit altogether." "Capi a! !" cried the exulting G-ibbs. "You have done it splendidly. You shall certainly have all my business hereafter."