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possessed a perfect mastery over all the facts, and a complete knowledge of the authorities bearing upon them. Leaders regarded him as the most helpful junior at the Common Law bar; he always gave them a liberal supply of points. Time has dealt very gently with him. His years are much older than he looks. He was born in 1886, but as he sits in court, his head resting on his hand, supported by his desk, his keen eyes indicating close attention and mental activity, he certainly appears to be younger than fifty-five years old. He is as quick and sharp as a needle; and the rate at which he disposes of the cases tried before him is not surpassed by any of his brethren. In grasping an argument, and in taking the measure of a witness, he shows that his mental machinery works at express speed.

"In his early days Sir Archibald was a cricketer of considerable renown; and he has maintained his enthusiastic interest in the world of bats and balls. Now he derives his pleasure from the pursuit of the gentle pastime; he has delivered the sentence of death upon many a salmon in the rivers of Scotland."

But they have left out part of the story. The record of the 'Varsity races will tell it, and it is good reading here:

"April 4, 1857, over the four-mile three-furlong course, from Putney to Mortlake, A. L. Smith, of First Trinity College, rowed No. 4 in the Cambridge eight in the 'Varsity race, and lost. March 27, 1858, he rowed No. 2 in the Cambridge eight in the 'Varsity race over the same course, and won. April 5, 1859, he rowed No. 3 in the Cambridge eight in the 'Varsity race, same course, and lost. His racing-weight was 158 lbs."

So the hard worker on the Bench of to-day learned how to work hard forty years ago—on the thwart of his University's pride—the best eight out of the thousands of her athletic sons."

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