Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — Rising at the Bar. [ARTICLE]

Rising at the Bar.

Smtill-sized lawy-vs have always a certain diftlcaltj’ in making thetnsel v.'s prop.-bly sssihhfc when a.ldfessing the eJUftf In the - time of Henry Erskine, : one of the great?-t wits that ever liven, there was a iictle man at the Scottish bar who was in the habit of aililnig .te his .stature by standing on a stool whenever he Sjihce. "Tins." remarked • Erskine, “is one way of rising at the bar.”