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.



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