eloquent speech a court packed with everybody who is anybody, and
in both cases having the eyes of Europe upon him and the ears of
America hanging on his next word. After all, barristers will be
barristers and, when they are, your ordinary man is no match for
'em. It took another man of his own kind to knock the conceit out of
the idea.

Lack of precedent was no difficulty to Bowdler's learned opponent. A
ready imagination made up. To hear him talk you would think he had
spent his life assisting at the trials of ex-Kaisers. He described
the whole affair as if it had already taken place. Thus:--

The culprit, he assumed, is on bail, though not, of course, on his
own recognizances. First, attention is called to the case by Counsel
for the Prosecution rising early in the sitting and asking his
Lordship if he might mention the case of WILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN, next
on his Lordship's list.

"William who?" asks the Clerk of Assize.

"WILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN," answers counsel: "H-O-H-E-N-Z-O-double
L-E-R-N."

A titter is heard at the idea of a man going about with a name like
that. His Lordship, regarding it as a nuisance rather than a joke,
threatens to have the court cleared. A juryman in waiting in the
gallery seizes the opportunity to ask, if anyone is to be turned
out, might it be himself.

Counsel goes on to mention the case. "A complicated case of false