and sets the rest of the body at liberty. He is a scare-crow to that ale house, where he drinks not his morning's draught, and apprehends a drunkard for not standing in the king's name. Beggars fear him more than the justice, and as much as the whip-stock, whom he delivers over to his subordinate magistrates, the bridewell-man and the beadle."

The bailiff, again, "is the creditor's hawk wherewith they seize upon flying birds, and fetch them again in his talons: he is the period of young men, or their full stop; for when he meets with them they can go no farther: his ambush is a shop stall, or close lane, and his assault is cowardly, at your back: he respites you in no place but a tavern, where he sells his minutes dearer than a clock-maker."

We have now to consider the fourth species; the shovel-nose shark. This includes all the pettifogging attornies of the Dodson and Fogg class those limbs of the law, who, when business is slack in the Supreme Court, find means of making it by fomenting disputes among their neighbours, and who will take up a cause "on spec." They answer to Butler's description of a knave, who, he tells us, "is like

a tooth-drawer that maintains his own teeth in constant eating by pulling out those of other men." He is an ill moral philosopher, of villainous principles, and as bad practice: his tenets are to hold what he can get, right or wrong his tongue and his heart are always at variance, and fall out, like rogues in the street, to pick somebody's pocket; they never agree but, like Herod and Pilate, to do mischief: his conscience never stands in his light when the Devil holds a candle to him, for he has stretched it so thin that it is transparent."******** "He is like a pike in a pond, that lives by rapine, and will sometimes venture on one of his own kind, and devour a knave as big as himself; he will swallow a fool a great deal bigger than himself; and, if he can but get his head within his jaws, will carry the rest of him hanging out of his mouth, until by degrees he has digested him all. He has a hundred tricks to slip his head out of the pillory without leaving his ears behind. As for the gallows, he never ventures to show his tricks upon the high rope, for fear of breaking his neck. He seldom commits any villany but in a legal way, and makes the law bear him out in that for which it hangs others. He always robs

under the vizer of the law, and picks pockets with tricks in equity."

The blue Shark is, of course, the barrister. We do not mean to include those high-minded gentlemen of the law, who never undertake a cause, but one in which they feel convinced that their client has truth and justice on his side; they are out of the category altogether. But we mean barristers of the description of "Lawyer Tongue," who first pleaded for "Nose" in the famous spectacle case tried before Chief Baron Ear, and then changed sides, and pleaded for "Eyes" versus "Nose;" those men, in short, who will plead in any cause, provided they have a retaining fee. Of one of this class, Bishop Earle says:-"His business gives him not leave to think of his conscience; and, when the time, or term of his life is going out, for doomsday, he is secure; for he hopes he has a trick to reverse judgment." We dismiss them in the words of Baxter. "When money will hire you to plead for injustice against your own knowledge, and to use your wits to defraud the righteous and spoil his cause, or vex him with delays, for the advantage of your unrighteous client, I would not have your conscience for all your

gains, nor your accompt to make for all the world." These are your "Oily Gammons."

The last species is the hammer-headed Shark; or the one who "charges the jury." The less said regarding this species the better. It derives its name from a hammer-headed protuberance projecting from either side of the head: one is the criminal hammer; the other the civil. It occasionally happens that when the victim escapes being knocked down by the civil hammer, it is floored by the criminal one, or vice versa.

After all, we will terminate this chapter here, and leave it to time to develope whether we shall resume this portion of our subject.

CHAPTER XXIV.

"Soll ich dir flammen bildung, weichen?
Ich bin's, bin Faust, bin deines gleichen."
GOETHE.

"Shall I yield to thee, thou shape of flame?

I am Faust-I-I am thine equal."

OF ENCOUNTERING GHOSTS.

We have often wondered why the Irish peasantry should entertain so deadly a hatred against the Saxons, which no benefits conferred upon them appear to remove, but on the