Punch (95.1888)

November 10, 1888.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI._227^

OUR JAPANNERIES. No. 21.

COURT UP FOR LUNCH.

THE PARNELL COMMISSION.

{Special Report.)

Tuesday,— Joseph Oillis has taken somebody else's seat this
morning. It's mine. Has " called" himself to the Inner Bar, and
now sits with us. Suppose he '11 be donning wig and gown presently.

V61^ a S*ts a^ ^ay" I*ret*y *° see as shadows lengthen, lay
nis nead on Lockwood's broad shoulder and sweetly sleep. Some-
thing weighing on his mind. Moments of abstraction when he sits
gazing afar. Once heard something like a sigh
Anyth--

,, Anything gone wrong ? " I ask.
JNot yet," he says. " But I'm afeard. Do you think, when

I

get into the witness-box and they examine me about my visit to Paris
in the spring of 1882—' in the spring, a young man's fancy,' don't you
know—do you think anything will come out about private affairs ? "

" Do you mean," I said, " will they want to know anything about
that little affair with the widow, that let you in for the breach of
promise case ? "

"Well, you needn't put it quite that way, Toby; but that's
somewhere about it. You know all about legal procedure. Will
the Judges let the Attorney-General go into that matter ? "

" I fancy they will," I said. " But I '11 look up the authorities.
Haven't got your Coke upon Littleton in your waistcoat pocket, have
you ? ".