Legal Meditations. Will Byles help me to pay the bill I owe for flowers? Can her will Be changed by reading Jarman? What's " Greenleaf's Evidence" to me? Or Littleton? Or Parker? He Is drier than theosophy — Yes, worse than any Brahmin. And " Kneeland on Attachments," too, Has nothing in it that will do — The title is misleading. And though through dusty books I read, Alas, I ne'er can learn to plead In Cupid's Court, so she will heed, From " Stephen's Rules of Pleading." "Collyer on Partnership " I've read, And vainly too; "Contracts to Wed," By some one named Fitzsimmon. Nor does it seem to help me on That "Marriage Settlements" I con, Or Schouler's learned book upon "The Law of Married Women." There is no statute I can find Will make a maiden change her mind; Nor know I where the place is To find a law to help me win A suit like mine — or I'd begin To search it out. It isn't in My set of " Leading Cases." But "Baylies on Appeals"! Ah, there Is just the answer to my prayer! I know not how to do it. From her decision — by the Seal Of all the Courts! — I will appeal; And that will make the verdict nil Until I can review it. J. G. Burnett, in Love and Laughter
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