ONE ON THE LAWYER
One of the most amusing of recent ‘ reminiscence ’ books is The Spice of Life, by Thormanby. He has
some capital legal stories to .tell. He knew a learned counsel once who always boasted that he looked twenty years younger than he was, but he had an awful blow one day when he was cross-examining a very - selfpossessed young lady. He wanted her to tell him the age of somebody she knew, or at least to make a guess at it, but he couldn’t get a satisfactory answer, from her. ‘ Come, you can generally form an idea of age from people’s looks,’ he said coaxingly. ‘Now, how old would you say I am?’ To which the lady replied: ‘ You might be sixty by your looks; but judging by the questions you ask, I should say about sixteen!’
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New Zealand Tablet, 28 November 1912, Page 61
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140ONE ON THE LAWYER New Zealand Tablet, 28 November 1912, Page 61
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