University of Michigan Law School - Quad Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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. i l l jusnce judicially Hamiquisrerea. BY LULA -I. DICKINSON YN f QUIRE DESCUM has been justice of the Peace' in I his township for the last twenty years, and in all Q r if likelihood will be for the ,next twenty, if the constitu- ? tion of the Squire and of the United States can 552' 'Ll endure the strain. . He has a lank figure, a hungry looking face predominated by a nose which would be classiiied in the treatises on physiognomy under the heading ffborn to command , his hands, protruding from his coatsleeves, thus giving him the appearance of wearing soinebody's outgrown clothes, are large and horny, for the Squire earns his living, not by goacling his neighbors into lawsuits in order to lawfully iletain theirihard earnings, but by honest toil. There are fewer lawsuits in his township than in any other in his county, for, when two come to him to settle their difficulty, he will run his fingers through- his scanty locks, stretch 'his ungainly arms still farther through his short coatsleeves, as if to get a good holil of the subject, and then, having mentally grasped it. will rub his hands industriously and say: ff Well! Well! Can't you settle it? Hate to have neighbors go to law. Not much made by it. Let's just talk it over. Sometimes great things come from talking mat- ters over. just a little misunderstanding! No serious matter. Well! Well ! Then the would-be plaintiff and defendant begin to think it can be settled. The Squire will continue: You was both a little mean. just El little! Call things even, most we can expect in this world's to get even . They feel their.grievances pretty nearly balance each other, and 30 awai' feeling a triiie more the necessity of bearing and for-