Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1914 — Tempering the Water to a Lamb. [ARTICLE]

Tempering the Water to a Lamb.

There la a certain lawyer In this city whose income from hia practice is nearer SIOO,OOO than $60,000, says the New York Evening Post He is known as the keenest and readiest of cross-examiners, and a man of profound learning eg well as common sense. Yet he oonfesaes that it took one year for the fact to flash upon him that he had been the victim of a most egregious piece of simple trickery. This, his colloquy with the clerk in a haberdashery store, will explain it: Eminent and Brilliant Lawyer—l want to buy a bathing suit Small Clerk —Yea, air. (Sorts out several. All are of ordinary woolen except one. This, by far the most expensive, is of a heavy knitted kind. Lawyer remarks that he is to spend summer in Maine.) ,Eminent and Brilliant lawyer— Why is this one so heavy? Small Clerk—That la for bathing in climates where the water Is very oold, sir. We sell many to persona who go to Maine. Eminent and Brilliant Lawyer—Ah, it’s lucky I learned this. I’ll take the heavy one. (Buys salt and walks out One year later the truth flashes on him.) \