"There are too many chances to make it worth much more merely to get the other fellow out of the way.

Sometimes, though, I've paid as high as fifteen hundred for a case." "Fifteen hundred!" exclaimed I.
"Yes, and got a verdict of nineteen thousand, of which I pocketed ninety-five hundred and four hundred dollars costs besides." "Whew!" I whistled.
"Oh, there's pretty good pickin's on occasion even for a police- court lawyer," he continued; "but it's nothin' to the return from what I might call legitimate practice.

Now, there's old Haight, of Haight & Foster, for instance.

He gets half a dozen twenty- thousand-dollar fees every year, and all he has is strictly old- fashioned probate and real-estate practice and a little of this new-fangled railroad business.

My great regret is that I didn't stick to regular trade instead of going after easy money.