So it appears,' replied I, 'he only asked 3s.6d.at first; but by this _Caesarean operation_, I am nineteen shillings out of pocket.'-- Now, sir, what do you think of that ?" "I think that you should exclaim against the dishonesty of the potato-merchant, rather than the judgment of the court.

Had you defended your own cause, you might have had justice." "I don't know that.

A man makes a claim against another, and takes his oath to it; you must then either disprove it, or pay the sum; your own oath is of no avail against his.

I called upon my legal friend, and told him how I had been treated, and he then narrated the following circumstance, which will explain what I mean:-- "He told me that he never knew of but one instance in which a respectable person had gained his cause, and in which, he was ashamed to say, that he was a party implicated.

The means resorted to were as follows:--A Jew upholsterer sent in a bill to a relation of his for a chest of drawers, which had never been purchased or received.