THE RIVE DE PAIL
[To ma EDITOR OF ma" iirscrAToR.'1
SIR,—Your readers may like a more amusing version of the good story on your front page (October 25th). It was said that the late Mr. Justice Wills, travelling in French Switzer- land, had to complain of his post-boy and dismissed him. At- the next town. he found the plaintiff and the local "beak," the latter of whom remarked, "Lui, ii eat Suisse et pauvre, vous vous etes riche et Anglais : payee done une amende de cinq
[We had the story of Mr. Justice Wills and his post chaise in our mind. We believe that the incident ended in an admirable epigram on the part of the English and a sentence of three days' imprisonment on the part of the French judge. in the course of a heated argument between the Bench and the defendant, the Tuge de Pair drew himself up and elapped his ample breast, with a "Monsieur, la Justice eat .eternelle." "Sans doute," came the instant reply, " mais rAdministration eat bien variable." You should, 'however, ;never bandy epigrams with a judge, and accordingly Mr. Justice Wills went to jail.—En. Spectator.]
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