A SHARP RETORT

New Zealand Tablet, 9 December 1909, Page 1957

A SHARP RETORT

_ Occasionally a just lawyer will have -trouble Vith^an^ M 'The atrocious *St£& Hoare, the Irish lawyer, was once arguing a case before Robinson.. , The < judge . was unusually sternT ? arid finall? Kin? the c K y rn U " g b T^ te? hj - CUsi^ intending tJ ?at Xin S s commission into contempt + i * v' my lord^' said Hoare; 'I have "read in a book that when a peasant during the troubles of Charles I found the -crownrin a bush, he sho^e'd#t) €l^everence lii . f^i^!^^L^ eCt '.+t. * Ro s" lso . n was reported to hkve' risen" to his rank by .-the publication- of some, slavish and 'scurrilous; .pampTUeS^ Once in the days when Curran was 'poor- "and unknown ?n3 g hn %*Z* ll \ st Z™** adversity, ihe appeared (before Robi insoil.« The judge tried to extinguish him. When Currarf declared that he had consulted all his law books anftSSß. aiiswer^ n °* SUPP ° rt his P^«?n,;»ribiiißon ' ' 'I suspect your law library is rather contracted:' n-a j brutal j t- unne cessary remark stung Curran V pride and roused bim at once. - ■ „. . , &, v . -„ , 'f 8 tft™^* is t? i Tie ' m yJ or K he - said > after a moment's- doirtemptuous silence 'that I am poor, and that 'circubstance has curtailed my library. My books are not numerous, but they are select, and I hope I -have perused them • well ' f tlm e Rt P^ P % red f mySel^ f^ r f^Sttgh Profession rather by r/gr^aVyS^onS. 0 ' °tf