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down at the chapel door and slouched round to 

 his prospective father-in-law. 



" Misther Horrigan," he said placidly, " ye 

 niver mentioned to me that your dather was a 

 say rambler aji' I will not marry her." 



He did not. 



The sea rambler received damages fifty pounds 

 but the Clare man took a wife from home, not one 

 who had rambled across the water to America. 



One of the barristers here often says very witty 

 things. He stood up one day to plead for a cUent 

 who had bought a public-house and found the 

 licence had just been taken away. 



" I appeal to you for my unfortunate client," 

 said the barrister, "who bought this public- 

 house, but what is it now, but the corpse of a 

 public-house with the living breathing spirit 

 of the licence taken away from it." 



I was cross-examined by this same barrister 

 myself once, but he let me down lightly. It was 

 before the well-known Judge Adams, and a case 

 of breach of warranty. I had bought a horse on a 

 man's word and found it had sidebones and 

 unsoundness I had been ignorant of. 



The judge called them sideboards all through. 

 I remember Mr. Preston my vet. asking to have 

 the case heard as he had to catch a train and it was 

 brought on at once. 



" Call the horse case." 



" Up got an old lady in the back of the court. 



