One day, a client being anxious to be informed on one or two subjects and not wishing to go to the expense of sundry 6s 8d fees, just asked his lawyer in a friendly manner to drop in and dine with him. His kind offer was accepted.

At dessert, while discussing various subjects over wine, he managed artfully, and, as he thought successfully, to wedge in his questions, which were duly answered by the sharp guest.

In a few days in came the lawyer’s bill “for answering sundry questions on the __ inst.,” &c. The client saw he was completely done, but a bright thought struck him: he sent in an account to the attorney for his dinner, no doubt thinking that he would be thereby completely sold.

No so: his account was paid, and in return the lawyer sent him a summons from the County Court for selling wine without a license.