XXXIII.
A Consultation as to new Lodgings--Also a Consultation with 317
Counsel
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Mr. Bumpkin receives Compliments from distinguished Persons 325
CHAPTER XXXV.
The Trial 335
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Motion for Rule _Nisi_, in which is displayed much Learning, 351
Ancient and Modern
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Mr. Bumpkin is congratulated by his Neighbours and Friends in 359
the Market Place and sells his Corn
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Farewell 375
THE LAWSUIT 381

"_He never suffered his private partiality to intrude into the
conduct of publick business_. _Nor in appointing to employments did
he permit solicitation to supply the place of merit_; _wisely
sensible_, _that a proper choice of officers is almost the whole of
Government_."--BURKE.

_Extract from Notice of the Work in_ THE SATURDAY REVIEW, _September_
15_th_, 1883:--

"He was obviously quite as eager for a good battle in Court as ever
was Dandy Dinmont."

CHAPTER I.

The beauty of a farm yard on a Sabbath day, and what a difference a
single letter will sometimes make in the legal signification of a
sentence.

It was during the Long Vacation--that period which is Paradise to the
Rich and Purgatory to the Poor Lawyer--to say nothing of the client, who
simply exists as a necessary evil in the economy of our enlightened
system of Legal Procedure: it was during this delightful or dismal period
that I returned one day to my old Farm-house in Devonshire, from a long
and interesting ramble. My excellent thirst and appetite having been
temperately appeased, I seated myself cosily by the huge chimney, where
the log was always burning; and, having lighted my pipe, surrendered my
whole being to the luxurious enjoyment of so charming a situation. I had
scarcely finished smoking, when I fell into a sound and delicious sleep.
And behold! I dreamed a dream; and methought:

It was a beautiful Sabbath morning, in the early part of May, 18--, when
two men might have been seen leaning over a pigstye. The pigstye was
situated in a farm-yard in the lovely village of Yokelton, in the county
of Somerset. Both men had evi