Feb. 26, 1898.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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JEWEL. BELFAST LOUGH ONE-DESIGN CLASS. 
have proved very successful, affording excellent sport 
in the races, of which some two dozen were sailed last 
year. The dimensions are: Length over all, 24ft.; 
l.w.l., 17ft.; beam, 6ft. 6in.; draft, ift. 6in.; with board, 
5ft. 6iii.; least fi'eeboard, ift. 6in.; sail area, 27Ssq.ft.; 
ballast, centerboard, 3cwt.; iron cast to fit inside, iScwt. 
The roller jib is so fitted as to be swung out, serving as 
a spinaker. 
The Luck of a Calm, 
My friends had congratulated me warmly on my good 
luck in getting a junior partnership with the firm of 
Scroggin & Swayles so soon after completing my law 
course. No doubt it was a good thing compared with 
the likeliest alternative — a small back office on my own 
account, with few clients and precious small earnings 
for a year or two. 
But after the first few months of satisfaction I began 
to think that after all Scroggin & Swayles were having 
the best of the bargain. My share of the profits under 
the agreement was less than the salary of one of our 
clerks who did far less work and had not a tithe of my 
responsibility. To be sure I was getting a living, but 
the senior partners were getting so much more, I really 
felt that my services to the firm must be altogether under- 
estimated, and determined to speak to Scoggin about 
it. He was the man who directed the affairs of the firm 
with an iron hand, and whose fiat was always final. How 
much he consulted Swayles I could not exactly make 
out. If ever they failed to agree, it was in private, for to 
the office an unbroken front was maintained, and that 
front was always Scroggin Q. C. — the eminent counsel 
who was quite accustomed to having his own way even 
with refractory witnesses. 
With him I must deal finally, but as a preliminary 
I sounded Swayles and stated my case. He listened 
quietly, as he did to everybody, and did not offer com-' 
nient or interruption until I had finished with a some- 
vvhat excited declaration of my intention of "tackling 
Scroggin." Then he smiled and shook his head. "No 
use," said he. "At least it would be no use to tackle 
Scrop-gin the way you have tackled me. He would 
simply take a professional delight in arguing you down. 
And a man who commands the fees he does for an 
argument is not a novice at the business. You have not 
been in the firm very long, and you are not doing so 
badly after all. Whenever the opportunity offers I will 
certainly not only agree, but urge that your share of the 
profits be increased. But you had better leave the in- 
itiative to myself or Scroggin. I know you are 
working hard, and he knows it too, although you might 
not think so. We never do things by halves, and it's 
a long road that has no turn. If you happen to dis- 
tinguish yourself, particularly in connection with any 
case, it will likely hasten the turn. But if you take my 
advice you will not push matters at present." 
I took his advice, and said no more about the matter. 
I was kept busy enough, but mostly with routine work 
at Osgoode Hall and general office humdrum — not the 
kind of thing to give me any chance to distinguish my- 
self. I was on the lookout for lucky accidents, and of 
course thev did not come my way. Rather the opposite 
occurred, particularly in regard to one case that from an 
office standpoint was very satisfactory — that is our client 
had lots of money and was willing to spend it in liti- 
gation. 
It fell to my lot to get some of the evidence in shape, 
in which process it appeared that a young lady residing 
in Rochester, N. Y., would be a very material witness. 
For some reason our client left it to us to secure her at- 
tendance, which could only be by consent, as she was 
out of the jurisdiction of the Ontario courts. I went 
over to see her, armed with instructions to offer a sub- 
stantial witness fee in addition to all expenses; she told 
me quite frankly all she knew about the matter, and it 
was just the evidence we wanted too. When I broached 
JEWEL. 
the subject of her attendance at court, she hesitated. 
I thought I would clinch matters by mentioning the wit- 
ness fee, and she at once became highly indignant and 
declined to make any promises. I had evidently bun- 
gled the thing, and after in all probability making mat- 
ters worse by more urging and argument I came home 
crestfallen. Scroggin was handling the case and he re- 
ceived the report of my trip with an amused smile, 
which annoyed me more than anything else. 
That was early in May, and the case was not to come 
on until -September, Time was on our side and the 
young lady might yet be induced to come over and 
help us. Meanwhile work on the case continued, and 
every time it turned up I felt a twinge of annoyance. 
If Scroggin was at all worried about it he did not say 
so, but proceeded with the work as though the witness 
was of no consequence, until he suddenly discovered 
that he needed a trip to Europe, and bovmded off, leav- 
ing everything to Swayles. I one day suggested that 
another attempt should be made to secure her evidence 
at the trial, but Swayles seemed very indifferent about 
it, and I concluded that he and Scroggin had decided 
to p-et along without her. Their indifference to the mat- 
ter might have reassured me, but it had the opposite 
effect. To my mind that witness was indispensable, and 
I gradually worked myself up to the belief that if we lost 
the case the absence of her evidence and indirectly my 
failure to secure it would have to bear the blame. 
By the middle of July Swayles concluded that there 
was nothing to prevent his going to Muskoka for six 
weeks, and away he went, leaving me in full charge 
with formal instructions to keep him posted and consult 
him on matters of importance, modified by something 
like a wink and a caution not to bother him about 
