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Smith v. Marrable. The Boston Law School is a young insti tution, but already it numbers among its graduates men who have taken a foremost position in their profession in different parts of the country, those who have taken high rank in the politics of their respective States and have filled most honorable positions, and

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authors of extended reputation. If the later years of the school shall prove to be as suc cessful, in the highest sense of the term, as those which have already passed, its friends will be able to look back over its history as a complete vindication of its existence and its methods of instruction.

MARRABLE.

CASE.

(11 M. & W. 5. — Temp. 1843.)

By John Popplestone. [// is an implied condition in the letting of a furnished house that it shall be reasonably fit for habitation.'] "DRUNSWICK PLACE is in Brighton; ■"-^ Leads to Brunswick Square; And Brunswick Square looks right on To the sea that 's there. The Marrables went to Brunswick Place; Sir Thomas the Knight, in the year of grace Eighteen hundred and forty-two, Wrote: "Yes, I think the house will do; I 'll take it furnished for a space. We 11 come at once; the bargain fix, — I 'll take it for five weeks or six." But when begins my ditty? Six and forty years ago, To see the Marrables bitten so By insects, was a pity. s! They crawled in jugs, they filled the mugs, Lay hidden in the folds of rugs, Worried her ladyship's favorite pugs Till the beasts had never a moment's ease. Some were slow as lazy slugs, And some were as light and quick as fleas.