nts of joy and gratification up to this moment. And I
am not depressed---far from it. This, my Lord, is a trial, and I know,
for I feel, that it is good for me to be tried, inasmuch as it is a
proof that I am cared for THERE!" and he pointed again upwards as he
spoke.

The judge, who was a kind-hearted and humane man, was melted even unto
tears which he could with difficulty restrain whilst he spoke.

"Unhappy man," said he, "I have been for several years in the habit of
dispensing law--"

"Justice, you mean, my Lord," said Solomon; "oh, justice, justice, or
rather mercy, my Lord! little of law have you ever dispensed! Oh, little
of law--but much of justice. May He be praised for it! amen, amen!"

"Your case, unhappy man, is one which places me in a peculiarly painful
position indeed. The compliment you were good enough to pay me--I mean
that of calling your child after me--makes me feel as if in addressing
you I was--" here he sobbed and wiped his eyes bitterly, and was about
to proceed, when Widow Lenehan's counsel rose up, and said:--

"My Lord, it is really too bad that hypocrisy should continue its
impositions even to the last act of the drama. I feel it my duty to
disabuse your lordship in this matter of naming the child after
you. Perhaps the compliment will be considerably diminished, if not
absolutely reversed, when you come to know, my Lord, that the child
which bears your lordship's name--if it does bear it--is an illegitimate
one, and very unworthy, indeed, my Lord of bearing such an honored name
as yours."

The judge had been shedding tears for Solomon's calamities during this
address, but it is almost unnecessary to say that the change from the
benevolent and pathetic to the indignant was as fine a specimen as ever
was given of the ludicrous.

"Do you mean to tell me," said the judge, the whole features of his face
in a state of transition that was perfectly irresistible; "do you mean
to tell me that the child which the wretched! man had the insolence to
name after me, was not born in wedlock.

"My Lord," said Solomon, "this is a subject on which aided by my great
namesake the wisest of--"

"The decision of the court," continued the judge, "is, that your name be
struck off the list of Attornies who practice here."

In the course of about six weeks afterwards might be read, in all the
metropolitan papers, the following announcement: "Died of deep
decline in the forty-eighth year of his age, Solo