Punch (88.1885)

FEBRDiBT 21, 1835.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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A STRANGE COMBINATION.

following Advertisement from the Daily Telegraph, strikes
us as a novelty:_

TAILORS.-A Solicitor of experience wishes to undertake legal
usines8 as an equivalent for his tailoring. Address, &c.

Snlioif like very much to know how the accounts between the

wonlil an<^ bailor would be arranged. How many dress-suits

Tail a ?° f0 a lawsuit, and whether the Solicitor would, charge the
whenTtlXaa?Aeishtpenee when he came to lit on a new coat. And if,
vionT ttle.Solicitor called to look at trouser-patterns, such an inter-
v ew would be charged as a “consultation” in the bill ? , Another odd

thing strikes us, the Advertiser wishes to undertake legal business
“ as an equivalent for his tailoring.” As a Solicitor, he can “ solicit ”
orders; as a Tailor, he can execute them. And then he would not
only send you in bills, but he would sue you promptly if you did
not pay them, and charge you for the letters he wrote on the subject.
The combination of the two callings strikes us as being dreadful.

Theoey and Peactice.—The present period has been denomi-
nated an age of Discovery. Our learned ones discover traces of pre-
historic Man, track the Trilobite, and detect the Protoplasm. But
somehow we don’t seem to discover the Dynamitards, and the
deposits of Dynamite. Not much, but better than nothing at all.