Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — A Witty Judge. [ARTICLE]

A Witty Judge.

Mr. Justice Hawkins is one of London’s wittiest judges. He was one day sitting hearing a case, and while the counsel for the plaintiff was addressing him was obviously more intent on giving instructions to the attendants to close a window and try to stop a draught than attending to the arguments put forth. At length, when his lordship was more composed, the learned Q. C., annoyed at his argument going to the winds in such a manner, said: “I am not quite sure whether your lordship caught that point” The judge was all attention again. “I am not quite sure I did,” he said.-. “There’s only one thing I am sure I have caught, and that is a cold.”