"LAWYER" H. 



memories. " Lawyer " H. was a farmer pure and 

 simple, but, by his extraordinary fondness for 

 litigation, and for conducting his cases himself, 

 he deservedly earned the prefix universally accorded 

 to him. Probably the fact that he usually acted 

 as his own attorney and counsel, accounted for the 

 frequency with which he was non-suited. 



When, as boys, " a-hunting we would go," we 

 knew sufficiently about the penalties attaching to 

 trespassing to be induced to steer very clear of 

 H.'sland, for trespassers, particularly fox-hunters, 

 were his special abhorrence, and, as will shortly 

 be seen, he knew no distinction of persons. 



One day, some undergraduates, riding over his 

 land, were promptly warned off. They took the 

 hint and turned round, but also took the liberty 

 to indulge in a canter over another bit of pro- 

 scribed domain before finally departing. H., who 

 had kept his eye upon their movements, thereupon 

 mustered his farm-hands and waylaid the offenders 

 as they turned into the high road, with intent to 

 secure one of them as a hostage. After leaving 

 the forbidden land, the trespassers had been 

 joined by other horsemen returning from the hunt, 

 and these united with the defending party in their 

 resistance to capture. A desperate fight ensued, 

 which resulted in an undergraduate being dragged 

 away as a prisoner to the farmer's house. Here 

 he was forcibly detained for a considerable time, 

 being only released upon giving a pledge that he 

 would appear to answer for his doings in the 

 Vice-Chancellor's Court. He duly fulfilled his 

 undertaking, but not exactly as had been antici- 

 pated by his captor, for he summoned the latter, 



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