Good Bait.
Speaking of the retirement of a certain legal light, a man in the club the other evening- was saying; how much he would be missed. He eulogised him as having the finest legal mind he had ever encountered. "When he had & case on," he said, "the court was -nocked. I remember^ to this day a story he once told in- court In a case where he was showing" how, with a good motive, one might atill do a lot of harm. "He eaid that two aged Scotch ministers sat talking one day over the churchwarden pipes. " 'Last Sawbath,' said the younger of the two old men, 'only three folk cam' to my kirk, and since it was an ■ awfji' cauld, snawy. stormy mornin' I juist took thenv over to the manse, read a chapter, gied them a prayer, and then, to ward off the rheumatics, a quid stiff glass of the best whisky.' ' ''The other minister smiled. " 'Aweel,' he said, 'ye will hae a fine congregation, my brither, the next stormy day.' "
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Otago Witness, Issue 2804, 11 December 1907, Page 91
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174Good Bait. Otago Witness, Issue 2804, 11 December 1907, Page 91
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