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faculty, having the confidence to demand item for and more than that, he scorns to cheat you in his pains and trouble, when all the while he does hugger mugger, but will not fail to do so before nothing but hover over a quart pot. He is as of your face. He is like the man that cried, Any fensive to the attorneys as flies are to a galled tooth good barber, rather than stand out for a horse, and whereas their ne plus ultra is ten groats, wrangler, if he can pump no chink out of you. Mr. Solicitor forsooth claims double fees with au He will manage your cause for a breakfast, being thority, and if the clyent prove so saucy to deny it, a notable artist at spunging. Oh! he 's a terrible he will rage like Tom of Bedlam, but if that will slaughter man at a Thanksgiving dinner. He out not prevail he'll cast a squeezing look like that of shines a bailiff in all his cheating faculties, and I Vespasian. ... In the society of true and genuine know none outstrips him except his infernal grand lawyers he is like an owl among so many lapwings, father. In fine, he is the yeoman's horseleech, the and is no more fit to converse with them than a gentleman's rubbing brush, and the courtier's quid hogherd is to preach a sermon or a cinder-wench pro quo. He is the summum bonum of knavery; to wait upon a countess. . . . He writes a bill of in judgment a meer pigmy; in shew the beard of costs in such worm-eaten characters that 'tis past a demi-blazing star. To be brief, he is like a lamp the skill of a Rosicrucian to discover the apocalip- without oil, a trumpet without sound, a smoak tical meaning, yet for all that he will not abate you without fire, a fiddle out of tune, or a bell without an ace of the summa totalis, and that, to be sure, a clapper; and differs from a lawyer as a shrimp shall be plain enough. Wherefore, he may very does from a lobster, a frog from an elephant, or a fitly be called the inquisition of the purse . . . tom-tit from an eagle. — The Irish Law Times.