y years of age when I was
admitted to the bar, Griffin said:

"I think he will study law and enter the profession rather late in
life."

His last letter to me was as solemn as death itself, but he could not
omit an instance of his habit:

"The doctors tell me that I have water around my heart, but I know it
isn't so, for I have drank nothing but beer for six months."

This paragraph was commenced for the purpose of citing another instance
of his quality. In our office was a volume of my treatise on the
Excise and Internal Revenue Laws of the United States. Many years
after Griffin's death I found this entry on the fly-leaf of the volume:

"DEDICATION
"To the memory of Caesar Augustus in whose reign there went forth the
decree that all the world should be taxed, this book is respectfully
dedicated by the AUTHOR."]

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