17 APRIL 1915, Page 16

BULLS AND BLUNDERS.

[TO oar Eamon 07 me " Bescreman STR,—YOU may perhaps consider the following worthy of v place in your collection of bulls. I made notes of them at the time, now long ago, when they were uttered. Counsel addressing the jury in a collision case "He wants the plaintiff to be the shuttlecock between the two battledores— the haycart and the tramcar—in order that the plaintiff may fall between two stools." A great patent lawyer, "My Lord, we hold the great Beal in our hand and take our stand upon that." Counsel addressing the Court with regard to premises on which every large sum had been spent in rebuilding "The defendants take my client's skill and knowledge, his money and materials, his men's time and labour, and put them in