Thomson's opinion 6 8 Making copy of schedule and fixtures 5 6 Waiting upon Messrs. Ingram with same 3 6 Perusing abstract 2 10 6 Writing with appointment to examine deeds with abstract 3 6 Attending examining deeds with abstract, self and clerk 2 2 0 Attending searching liquidation proceedings of Arthur Coleman and paid 14 4 As this remarkable document extends over four and a half pages of foolscap paper I will not give it all. However, there are some other charges worthy of going upon record. For instance this item: A replying to your letter 3 6 And this: Attending you long conference, and you left cheque for purchase money 13 4 0 Writing you fully 3 6 Attending appointing conference 3 6 The entire bill footed up forty-two pounds, fourteen shillings and ten pence, which, reduced to bird of freedom money amounts to about two hundred and twenty-five dollars. And all this for transferring a lease from one party to another, about which operation there couldn't be the slightest trouble, except as the two attorneys made it. Doubtless the Messrs. Ingram and Dr. Thomson, whatever he had to do with it, put in a similar bill against their clients, so both sides had a very good thing of it. But this was not all there was of it. It was necessary that Mr. Foote should have a little article of agreement with Mr. Welch, his manager, not that there was any especial need for it, but as a mere matter of form, as we say when we want a sure thing on somebody. The same attorney was employed to do this, in fact he suggested it and did it before this bill was presented. [Illustration: THE LONDON LAWYER.] [Sidenote: MR. FOOTE'S EXPERIENCE.] The bill for this service is precisely like the other. There are items for "attendance," for "preparing telegrams," for "waiting, self and clerk," for "instructions," and so on, the amount charged for preparing an article of agreement being eight pounds sterling. The attorney's fees for the whole of this trifling piece of business footed up exactly seventy-two pounds sterling, or three hundred and sixty dollars. "What do these items mean?" I asked Mr. Foote. "Well, the items for attendance mean that I went to his office and told him in three minutes' time what I wanted, and he made minutes with a pencil." "The clerk?"