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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418930" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Occasion of the Law Suit. chapter I</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I need not tell you of the great quarrels that have happened in our <br>neighbourhood since the death of the late Lord Strutt; how the <br>parson and a cunning attorney got him to settle his estate upon <br>his cousin Philip Baboon, to the great disappointment of his cousin <br>Esquire South. Some stick not to say that the parson and the <br>attorney forged a will; for which they were well paid by the family <br>of the Baboons. Let that be as it will, it is matter of fact that <br>the honour and estate have continued ever since in the person of <br>Philip Baboon. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Late King of Spain. <br>* Cardinal Portocarero. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You know that the Lord Strutts have for many years been possessed of <br>a very great landed estate, well conditioned, wooded, watered, with <br>coal, salt, tin, copper, iron, etc., all within themselves; that it <br>has been the misfortune of that family to be the property of their <br>stewards, tradesmen, and inferior servants, which has brought great <br>incumbrances upon them; at the same time, their not abating of their <br>expensive way of living has forced them to mortgage their best <br>manors. It is credibly reported that the butcher's and baker's bill <br>of a Lord Strutt that lived two hundred years ago are not yet paid. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Philip Baboon came first to the possession of the Lord Strutt's <br>estate, his tradesmen, as is usual upon such occasions, waited upon <br>him to wish him joy and bespeak his custom. The two chief were John <br>Bull,* the clothier, and Nic. Frog, * the linendraper. They told <br>him that the Bulls and Frogs had served the Lord Strutts with <br>draperyware for many years; that they were honest and fair dealers; <br>that their bills had never been questioned; that the Lord Strutts <br>lived generously, and never used to dirty their fingers with pen, <br>ink, and counters; that his lordship might depend upon their honesty <br>that they would use him as kindly as they had done his predecessors. <br>The young lord seemed to take all in good part, and dismissed them <br>with a deal of seeming content, assuring them he did not intend to <br>change any of the honourable maxims of his predecessors. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The first letters of congratulation from King William and the <br>States of Holland upon King Philip's accession to the crown of <br>Spain. <br>* The English. <br> ** The Dutch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Arbuthnot">John Arbuthnot</a><div class=q>
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