Judge — February 16, 1884 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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And last of all I threw With them The Good, Ix, Up jumped the scale It settled back a And so But then She whispered—O, so sweet!— “Another Fay!” Then fleet I ran my Love to meet And boldly cried: * Sweetheart, thy love give me— ‘Thy True-Love, pure and free As that I offer thee.”” She blushed; she sighed. xt I kissed her lips and knew, At once, she loved me true; Then quick returned, and threw Her own Truc-Love Upon the scale. My eyes Stared wide with glad surprise To sce the beam upri "Twas just enor ENVOY my song, my bird, ‘o him who ne‘er hath heard ‘This wondrous gospel-word Of pure Truc-Love, Or, whose world-laden breast Hath heeded not. There rest;) ‘There make thy brooding nest. Thus coos the Dove ath eainly sought, hath naught.” Studies from Carmen. ‘There's a fettinine cliqu Swears the tenor lyrique, Has a voice, ob, so sweetly pathetic And the tenor robusto, Who sin Has manners divinely esthetic. with such gusto, That the Toreador, Singi lel mio Or something that sounds as alarm’ Is worthy the bliss Of a much better ki he gets from his Carmen, w, the opera is fine, But the ‘a when they dine of enthralling, oreador combat is o'er et rather too full, le quails too much chianti ‘Then pl And im penny-ante s his wife is the bull Op AcE.—Dot. It is always ¢ f enough to tell a doctor's It is pilla A Queer Client. “OTRUTUL 18 STRANGER THAN FICTION.” I, re writer, premise by saying that lam a lay member, $0 to speak, of the learned profe which, from the days of the great English commentator of olden time, down to these degene $ ter” genus—not genius, produced many good and use- ful, and numberless bad and worse than use- members of socicty. When say that I lay member of the profession (which nked in the category of polite y any means, inasmuch as its members, great and small, and middling, are prone to angling and mutual billingsgate abuse in public, though fraternizing in private), I do not wish to be understood as meaning th Taman y and counsellor duly licensed toabuse ‘the other side” with impunity, for Tam nothing of the sort, nor T any lurking insane ambition to be one, in view of the fact that I personally know many mem- bers of the profession, eminent in their own estimation, to be at this moment ‘‘out a elbows, c ly on the brink of abso- Inte ecuniosi ging by hook or ting,” properly (this is the legal shyster verbiage) such con- fiding and unfortunate clients as get into their clutches. But to come to the question of membership again—I am but a frail leaf on the great umbrageous and sheltering tree of legal knowle in other and plainer words, I avow myself to be but a humble and ill-remunerated law engrosser and copyist or knight of the quill, to substantiate which this chapter is scribbled on legal cap paper, purloined from the office. Like the learned Blackstone, I, too, am a great commenta- tor, but in another w I silently observe and inwardly comment on the per- nd curious clients who come within the of my physical and mental vision. We have several samples of this class, of both sexes, visitin r offi but the queerest and quaintest perhaps of all our queer and quaint clientage is an antiquated feme sole—the latin-legal term for spinster— ‘of indomitable will, spare figure, gray hair, wrinkled visage and garrulous tongue, whose may be anywhere between sixty and th scriptural three score and ten, and wh hallucination is embodied—if ballucination can be embodied—in the fact that she verily believes herself to be the sole owner in fee simple absolute of that particular block, plot, piece or parcel of land, with all the buildings, Improvemen| nd appurtenanc situate, lying and being in New Y. and commonly known as City Hall Park, bounded and described as follows, to wit: On the north by Chambers strect, on the south partly by Park Row and partly by Chatham street, on the east by Centre street, and on the west by Broadway, and being, at the pres- ent time, of the approximate value of two million dollars. It is generally known that the old lady in question beeame possessed of this s hallucination, not this property, some ten years ago or thereabouts, and has ever since pursued the will-o’-th’-wisp phantasy with unremitting and surprising pertinacity, hav- ing within that period songht and had inter- views on the subj with the various New York City officials, and consultations with the majority of city real estate lawyers Having in her peregrinations become ac- quainted with the real estate member of our firm some five years ago, she has periodically about twice a month—haunted the office ever always vehemently asserting her claim nd requesting that a full official investiga- ion be made of her title to the premises, which she claims descended to her in regular comicbooks.com ge eS