Legal Advice Under Singular Circumstances — 215
A client, while bathing in the sea, saw his lawyer rise up, after a long dive, at his side. “Ho, there Mr. ——, have you taken out a warrant against Burt?” “He is in quod,” replied the agent, and dived again, showing his heels as a parting view to his client; nor did the latter hear more of the interview with the shark until he got his account, containing the entry, “To consultation at sea, anent the incarceration of Burt, six shillings and eightpence.”