He is merely less obviously so.

There are a few men in Wall Street who can press a button and call for almost any judge they want--and he will come-- and adjourn court if necessary to do so--with his silk hat in his hands.

And if any young aspirant for legal honors who reads these fugitive memoirs believes that the road to the supreme bench leads _via_ Blackstone, and is lighted by the midnight oil of study, let him disabuse himself of that idea, but seek rather the district leader; and let him make himself useful in getting the boys that are in trouble out of it.

Under our elective system there is no more honor in being a judge than in being a sheriff or a hog-reeve; but, when one is young--and perhaps starving--it may seem otherwise.
If any of my lay readers believe that the practice of the law is a path of dalliance, let him but hazard his fortunes for a brief space on the good ship Jurisprudence--he will find the voyage tedious beyond endurance, the ship's company but indifferent in character and the rations scanty.

I make no doubt but that it is harder to earn an honest living at the law than by any other means of livelihood.