14 MARCH 1896, Page 15

[To THZ EDITOR OF THZ "SPZITTATOR."1

SIR,—I am not sure that you will admit this " bull " into your columns, but I beard John Mill tell it to amuse my brothers some seventy years ago. The defendant's counsel (Irish ?), pointing to the plaintiff, said, "There he sits walking up and down like a motionless statue with the cloak of hypocrisy in his month trying to wire-draw three oak-trees out of my client's pocket."—I am, Sir, &c., E. S.