rty."

"If I had a hundred dollars in my pocket, that would be real property;
if I had your note for a hundred, that would be personal property."

"When, in a criminal trial, is the defendant declared to have been
placed in jeopardy?"

"When he acts like a jeopard."

"Do you deem yourself qualified to render valuable and efficient
assistance to a client or to appear as amicus curiae?"

"Yes, sir; especially in the trial of a jury case; but he's had more
experience that I have; he's now assistant city attorney of Louisville."

"Where do you get that idea?"

"Judge Dobson, that is what this court says in the case of Ewald Iron
Company against The Commonwealth, 140 Ky. 692: 'Clayton B. Blakey and
Amicus Curiae, attorneys for the City of Louisville.'"

"What law books have you read?"

"I have read Bryce's American Commonwealth, Cooley's Constitutional
Limitations and a work on Constables. I have been too busy getting
practical ideas about courts and juries to read much law; with me the
main thing is to know the judge and the jury."

His examiners issued a license. Judge Dobson at first demurred, but
finally consented when his colleagues explained what efficient service
Saylor had rendered as a member of the Judiciary Committee, saying: "I
ought not to do it, but his neighbors will soon find out what he knows
and leave him alone; he will not have opportunity for much harm."

After the adjournment of the Legislature Caleb moved to Richmond and
formed a partnership with Webster Jones, who was a graduate of an
eastern law school. Jones prepared their pleadings and attended to all
equity practice, while Caleb solicited business and tried their jury
cases. The firm obtained its share of the business and Caleb met with
more than average success in the handling of his jury cases.

His vanity was tremendous. No one had ever succeeded in satisfying its
voracious appetite; it would swallow anything and hungrily plead for
more. His father, having started early and knowing what pleased his boy,
was his most satisfactory feeder. It was Caleb's practice to drive out
to the farm on Saturday afternoon and remain until Monday morning,
boasting of his successes in business and politics and listening with
satisfaction to his father's unstinted praise.

One Sunday afternoon, about a year after he began practicing law, his
father being ill and there being no one about the house who cared to
spend the afternoon talking with him abo