Ah! here it is! I looked in to ask you who copied this." "Who copied this, sir ?" says Mr.Snagsby, taking it, laying it flat on the desk, and separating all the sheets at once with a twirl and a twist of the left hand peculiar to lawstationers.

"We gave this out, sir.

We were giving out rather a large quantity of work just at that time.

I can tell you in a moment who copied it, sir, by referring to my book." Mr.Snagsby takes his book down from the safe, makes another bolt of the bit of bread and butter which seemed to have stopped short, eyes the affidavit aside, and brings his right forefinger travelling down a page of the book, "Jewby--Packer--Jarndyce." "Jarndyce! Here we are, sir," says Mr.Snagsby.

"To be sure! I might have remembered it.