es of a rejected
admirer. After having told her story and claiming a relationship with
him because her own name was Arnot, she wound up with: "Ye maun advise
me what I ought to do with this impertinent fellow."--"Oh, marry him by
all means, it's the only way to get quit of his importunities," was
Arnot's advice. "I would see him hanged first," retorted the lady.
"Nay, madam," rejoined Arnot, "marry him directly as I said before, and
by the Lord Harry he'll soon hang himself."

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Of the convivial habits of the Bar as well as the Bench in Scotland at
this period many stories are told. The Second Lord President Dundas once
refused to listen to counsel who obviously showed signs of having come
into Court fresh from a tavern debauch. The check given by the President
appeared to effect some sobering of the counsel's faculties and he
immediately addressed his lordship upon the dignity of the Faculty of
Advocates, winding up a long harangue with: "It is our duty and our
privilege to speak, my lord, and it is your duty and your privilege to
hear."

Another counsel in a similar condition of haziness hurriedly entered the
Court and took up the case in which he was engaged; but forgetting for
which side he had been fee'd, to the unutterable amazement of the agent,
delivered a long and fervent speech in the teeth of the interests he had
been expected to support. When at last the agent made him understand the
mistake he had made, he with infinite composure resumed his oration by
saying: "Such, my lord, is the statement you will probably hear from my
brother on the opposite side of the case. I shall now show your lordship
how utterly untenable are the principles and how distorted are the
facts upon which this very specious statement has proceeded." And so he
went over the same ground and most angelically refuted himself from the
beginning of his former pleading to the end.

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[Illustration: ANDREW CROSBIE, ADVOCATE, "Pleydell."]

When a barrister, pleading before Lord Mansfield, pronounced a Latin
word with a false quantity his lordship rarely let the opportunity pass
without exhibiting his own precise knowledge of that language. "My
lords," said the Scottish advocate, Crosbie, at the bar of the House of
Lords, "I have the honour to appear before your lordships as counsel for
the Cur[)a]tors."--"Ugh," groaned the Westminster-Oxford law lord,
softeni