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and asked how the Judge liked his coffee. left the house as usual, very early. Not far "Hot as hell and strong as the wrath of along the road, his host came galloping after God," replied the Chief-Justice. There are him to inquire if he knew what had happened two other circuit stories not commonly to the baby. Gibson clapped his hand to his known. He was leaving Pike County to sit forehead. " My God! " he said, " it's in the as Associate Justice in Wayne County. It top bureau drawer." Many instances of ab was the heart of winter in the backwoods, sence of mind and preoccupation are told with a dull sky and the wind chilly, and after of him. He was very fond of his associate a little while a wilderness of falling snow. Judge Burnside. One day, after Burnside's

Garrick C. Mallery death, he fell into a was riding with him reverie, from which as guide and pioneer. waking up he looked Coming along the trail around and said, towards them, they "Where's Burnie?" There was in Wayne met a man with a sled dragging a barrel of County an associate whiskey and a tin cup. judge familiarly called Both riders dismount Sam Preston, — a very ed into the snow, and large, heavy man. the Judge took a good Once at the opening cupful down, and rode of court he stood up and said that he had on. His pioneer fol a bone to pick with lowed his example, and the sheriff, who was in then came on behind court now. " Shall I the Judge, who pres give him the opinion ently turned round to of the Court on his him from where he was conduct?" he inquired riding on ahead, and of Gibson, who pre called through the de sided. " Hardly," re scending flakes, " Mal plied Gibson. " Then lery, it's getting warm I 'll sit down softly," er." Upon another said Judge Preston. occasion the ChiefJAMES P. STERRETT. As Judge Porter re Justice came to the marks, any memoir of house of friends, where it was his custom to stop on circuit and Judge Gibson would be incomplete without spend the night. He found they had just lost a reference to his agency in settling the law a little child. In a moment, of characteristic of Pennsylvania on the subject of riots. It impulse he offered to sit up with the body. cannot be told as amply here as in Judge Might came, and his hosts went to bed; and Porter's essay, to which the reader is re in the silence of the house Gibson sat up on ferred. It must be enough to say that riots a chair, huge and weary, thinking of his early became an epidemic pestilence between 1836 start on horseback at morning, and his day and 1846. Churches, schoolhouses, private in the stuffy court-room, while the little baby houses, all burnable property was burned, — lay on the bed. The Judge suddenly de often by the members of fire-companies. Gib cided that it was too much, got his clothes son's charge in Donoghue v. The County, off, gently placed the baby elsewhere in the 2 Barr, 230, held that a man's house is his room, lay down and slept. Next morning he castle, and that he has a right to defend it