CONTEMPT OF COURT 



and beguile the animal into further impressing 

 his views upon his person. This course com- 

 mended itself to all of us, except the hare, who, 

 to our disgust, did not take sufficiently kindly to 

 the idea to act upon it, and so the soundness of the 

 advice was never brought to test in a court of 

 law. 



"Contempt of court," of which the unen- 

 lightened of us had very hazy notions, was on 

 one occasion the theme of his discourse, and this 

 is how he brought home to our minds in what it 

 consisted. " Supposing you wish to show your 

 contempt for the law, you just put your finger 

 up to your nose at a p'liceman, who collars you 

 and brings you before a judge. Then the judge 

 shows his contempt for you by ordering you to 

 be birched and that's contempt of court." All 

 which we steadfastly believed. Verily, " a little 

 knowledge is a dangerous thing," sometimes ! 

 I may add that Lin wood never justified our antici- 

 pations by becoming Lord Chief Justice, or even 

 a K.C. As a matter of fact, he adopted journalism 

 as a career, and did well at it. 



