Excerpt from The Public School Matches: And Those We Meet ThereIT is a blazing hot day in August, Lincoln's Inn Square is like an oven, and the porters are vainly trying to find a shady spot where they can shelter themselves from the piercing rays of the sun, and at the same time be in the way for business. As if out of compliment to the weather, the dullest of all dull appeals is going on in the courts, and the judge is with laudable perseverance listening to a story without abeginning or end from the drowsiest of Queen's Counsel, whose speaking would in ordinary times act as a soporific to a man on the rack.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.