y,' under mitigating circumstances. The
prisoner has not injured himself with intent to do any grievous bodily
or mental harm, but he has been guilty of negligence, not having taken
due care of himself, and we hope the sentence we are about to pass
will act as a warning to him, and deter others from following a like
practice. The prisoner is released on bail, to come up for judgment
when called upon; and the meaning of that is," said Dr. Addison, "that
if you behave yourself you will hear no more of this; but if you
return to your former practice without any regard to the warning you
have had, you will be promptly called up for judgment, and I need not
say the sentence will be proportioned to the requirements of the case.
You may now go."

To carry on Dr. Addison's joke, I heartily thanked him for taking my
good character into consideration, and practically acquitting me of
all evil tendencies. Acting upon his good advice, from that time to
this I have never been in trouble again.

Watson, Q.C., afterwards Baron Watson, advised me to take a long rest;
but as he was not a doctor of medicine, I did not act upon his advice.
A long rest would have killed me much faster than any amount of work,
so I worked with judgment; and although my business went on increasing
to an extent that would not have pleased Dr. Addison, I suffered no
evil effects, but seemed to get through it with more ease than ever,
and was soon in a fair way to achieve the greatest goal of human
endeavour--a comfortable independence. The reason of getting through
so much work was that I had to reject a great deal, and, of course,
had my choice of the best, not only as to work, but as to clients. To
use a sporting phrase, I got the best "mounts," and therefore was at
the top of the record in wins.

Good cases are easy--they do not need winning; they will do their
own work if you only leave them alone. Bad cases require all your
attention; they want much propping, and your only chance is that, if
you cannot win, your opponent may _lose_.

But nothing in the chatter about the Bar is more erroneous than the
talk of the tremendous incomes of counsel. A man is never estimated
at his true worth in this world, certainly not a barrister, actor,
physician, or writer; and as for incomes, no one can estimate his
neighbour's except the Income-tax Commissioners. They get pretty near
sometimes, however, without knowing it.

One morning I was riding in the Park when o