EASILY SATISFIED.
There was onee a mandarin who was excessively fond of jewels, ami idways walked abroad with his robe covered with the sparkling gems. One day he was accosted by an old bonze, who.fidlowing him through the street, bowed himself often to the ground and thanked the mandarin for his jew els. 'What does the man mean?’ cried the mandarin, in great alarm. Then addressing the bonze, he said, ‘I never gave you any jewels, man!’ ‘No,’ replied the bonze, ‘hut you have let me look at them, and that is all the use you can make of them yourself, so there is no difference between us, except, that you have the trouble of guarding them, a task 1 should not rare for.’
‘Ah,’said the blustering lawyer, whose client, had just been acquitted, ‘ Now that, it’s all over, would you mind telling me how you reached your verdict?’ ‘ Certainly,’ replied the juryman. ‘We felt sure that it he had been guilty he wouldn’t have hired you to defend him.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue IX, 27 August 1898, Page 287
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170EASILY SATISFIED. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue IX, 27 August 1898, Page 287
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