frequently was
intended to sting the person to whom it was addressed. An advocate was
wending his weary way through a case one day, and in the course of
making a point he referred to a witness who had deponed that he had seen
two different things at one time and consequently contradicted himself.
Lord Young gave vent to the feelings of his colleagues in the Second
Division of the Court, when he interrupted thus:

"Oh, Mr. B----, I can see more than two things at one time. I can see
your paper, and beyond your paper I can see you, and beyond you I can
see the clock, and I can see that you have been labouring for an hour
over a point that is capable of being expressed in a sentence."

In the course of an argument in the same division, counsel had occasion
to refer to "Fraser" (a brother judge) "on Husband and Wife." Lord
Young, interrupting, asked: 'Hasn't Fraser another book?'--'Yes, my
lord, 'Master and Servant!''--'Well,' said Lord Young, 'isn't that the
same thing?'

Owing to a vacancy on the Bench having been kept open for a long period,
Lord Young's roll had become very heavy. Hearing that a new colleague
had been appointed, and like the late judge had adopted a title ending
in "hill," he gratefully quoted the lines of the one hundred and
twenty-first psalm:

"I to the hills will lift mine eyes,
From whence doth come mine aid."

Before the same judge, two prominent advocates in their day were
debating a case. One of them was a particularly well-known figure, the
feature of whose pinafore, if he wore one, would be its extensive girth.
The other advocate, who happened to be rather slim, was addressing his
lordship: "My learned friend and I are particularly at one upon this
point. I may say, my lord, that we are virtually in the same boat." Here
his opponent broke in: "No, no, my lord, we are nothing of the kind. I
do not agree with that." Lord Young, leaning across the bench, remarked:
"No, I suppose you would need a whole boat to yourself."

It is also attributed to Lord Young that, when Mr. Baird of Cambusdoon
bequeathed a large sum of money to the Church of Scotland to found the
lectureship delivered under the auspices of the Baird Trust, he
remarked that it was the highest fire insurance premium he had ever
heard of. "Possibly, my lord," observed a fire insurance manager who
heard the remark; "but you will admit that cases occur where the premium
scarcely covers the risk."

Lord Guthrie tells that