Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — A Wily Barrister. [ARTICLE]

A Wily Barrister.

Some little time since a well-known barrister—a lawyer certainly ought to have read the tenancy agreement—on entering upon a house in a fashionable West End row, unwittingly bound himself to paint the whole of the exterior, of the dwelling. On finding what an expense he had made himself liable for, he remonstrated with the landlord, who simply smiled and declared that the bond must be fulfilled. Then did the wily barrister cause the whole front of his house to be painted in strips of vivid green, yellow and pink, greatly to the chagrin of the fashion able neighbors, who were the tenants of the same landlord. In vain did the landlord storm; the barrister tenant threatened, unless the bond /was canceled, to have the back of the house painted like a rainbow, with huge black spots covering it at intervals. Agreement canceled. In Persia and Afghanistan, asa foetida is considered a delicate perfume, and many luxurious persons carry a quantity of it in their pockets or in a bag suspended from the neck.