A Voluminous Speaker
A WELL-KNOWN lawyer, Mr. Marryatt, who declared he had never opened any
book after he left school but a law book, once told a jury, when
speaking of a chimney on fire: Gentlemen, the chimney took fire; it
poured forth volumes of smoke! Volumes, did I say? Whole
encyclopaedias! Mr. Marryatt is said to have applied for two
mandami.