rom the point, it
makes it almost impossible for me to follow you, and if I cannot follow
you I don't know where you will be."

_Counsel_ (glibly). "I trust it is I who will always follow your
Lordship, and be led, as it were, by your Lordship."

_His Lordship_ (obviously highly pleased). "Very true, and very aptly
expressed. Pray do not let me interrupt you."

_Counsel_ (bowing). "Your Lordship's remarks are in themselves a
Commentary, and worthy of all preservation."

_His Lordship_ (almost playfully). "Exceedingly apt. But I must
refuse to be prejudiced by your clever advocacy."

_Counsel_. "And now we come to the touching and beautiful story of the
Lord Mayor of London, the Right Worshipful" (with a rising inflexion of
admiration in his voice), "who, after many years, had been knighted
like Dick Whittington."

_His Lordship_. "What has Dick Whittington and his Cat to do with the
present Lord Mayor of London and the Lion?"

_Counsel_. "Nothing, my Lord, save that----"

_His Lordship_. "Then please omit it; we have had enough of the fairy
tale element in this trial without the introduction of any fresh fairy
stories or nursery rhymes whatever."

_Counsel_ (continues blandly, as if unconscious of interruption). "The
Right Worshipful knew, and had always known, that one Lion was
different to the others. One only, the one present in Court, was
intelligent, a companion; the other three were _deaf_."

The Learned Counsel hoped the Gentlemen of the Jury "would not resemble
those other three Lions by being deaf, deaf to the cause of justice,
deaf to the interests of his client the Right Worshipful, deaf to those
promptings of illuminating intelligence which had been especially
vouchsafed to them as Jurymen, deaf to their duties as citizens in a
strange world where there were to be found things even stranger than
themselves." Thereupon the Learned Counsel sat down.

The Jury were asked if they wished to put any questions before His
Lordship summed up.

One juryman, rising, wished to know where Trafalgar Square was, as he
had never seen it.

Consternation in Court.

_His Lordship_. "Good gracious, where do you live?"

Juryman was understood to say he had lived all his life upon the
borders of Clapham Common. Questioned further with regard to this
extraordinary admission, confessed he had never seen any of the Lions
until he met the one in Court. Knew the Griffin well, as he had waited
beside