A NINETEENTH CENTURY SATIRE 209
A course of conduct AKWỤKWỌ NA-IRỊTA NA-IRỊTA 209
Usoro omume dị mkparị,
N'ebe ndi-ikpe, na ọkwá ha di elu;
Nke bụ ebumnuche Q.C/s:
Ma a nụwo mkparị onye ndụmọdụ-wilFd siri ike,
Rue mb͕e esemokwu putara n'etiti ha;
Esemokwu iwu kwadoro, ma ọ bụ iwu na-akwadoghị,
N'okpuru ùgwù nke okwu;
Ma dị ka akpọghị maka - M ga-ekwu naanị.
Dị ka Sergeant Taddy si nọ na Justice Parke." ^
NKWUO
117. Ka Sergeant Taddy nọ na Justice Parke ^^ Nke a esemokwu n'etiti Sergeant Taddy na Justice Parke, mere na Court of Common Pleas, na ikpe nke Thurtell v. Beames. (Echefuru m afọ ole gara aga.) Ma Mazị Sergeant Taddy nọ na-enyocha onye akaebe, wee jụọ ya ajụjụ gbasara ụfọdụ ihe mere mgbe nke onye gbara akwụkwọ apụọla na mpaghara ahụ. Maazị Justice Parke interposing kwuru, sị: 'Nke ahụ ezighi ezi ajụjụ ma e kwesịghị ịjụ ya.* 'Nke ahụ bụ otu imputation,' ka Sajentị zara, 'nke m na-agaghị okpuru- mit, Enweghị m ike itinye ajụjụ na-ezighi ezi na a àmà.' ' Gịnị bụ echiche, sir? * jụrụ Onyeikpe ahụ were iwe. 'Achọrọ m ka ị ghara ibo m ebubo nkedo echiche. M na-ekwu na e tinyeghị ajụjụ ahụ nke ọma; n'ihi na okwu a "na-apụ n'anya" pụtara ịhapụ nzuzo.' ' M na-ekwu,' ka Sergeant Taddy zaghachiri, 'na ọ pụtara na ọ dịghị otú ahụ ihe.' 'Atụrụ m anya,' ka Onyeikpe gaghachiri, 'na enwere m ụfọdụ n'okpuru- guzo n'aka ekpe; na ruo na nke ahụ ka okwu ahụ na-agba nkọwa ahụ, ya mere na-ekwesịghị ekwesị.' 'M ga- ekwela ka edo onwe ya n'okpuru ịba mba dị otú a.' 'Nke ahụ bụ ezigbo Uzo na-ezighi ezi maka onye ndụmọdụ ga-ekwu okwu n'ụlọikpe n'ime.'
O,
Towards the Judges, and their high position,
Which is the goal of a Q.C/s ambition :
Yet have a strong-wilFd Counsel's taunts been heard,
Until between them wrangles have occurred;
A legal, or illegal altercation,
Beneath the dignity of an oration ;
And as uncalled for — I would just remark.
As Sergeant Taddy's was with Justice Parke."^
NOTES
117. As Sergeant Taddy's was with Justice Parke ^^ This altercation between Sergeant Taddy and Justice Parke, occurred in the Court of Common Pleas, on the trial of Thurtell v. Beames. (I forget how many years ago.) But Mr Sergeant Taddy was examining a witness, and asked him a question respecting some event that had happened after the plaintiff had disappeared from the neighbourhood. Mr Justice Parke interposing observed : ' That's a very improper question and ought not to have been asked.* ' That is an imputation,' replied the Sergeant, ' to which I will not sub- mit, I am incapable of putting an improper question to a witness.' ' What imputation, sir ? * inquired the Judge angrily. ' I desire that you will not charge me with casting imputations. I say that the question was not properly put ; for the expression " disappear " means to leave clandestinely.' ' I say,' retorted Sergeant Taddy, ' that it means no such thing.' ' I hope,' rejoined the Judge, ' that I have some under- standing left ; and as far as that goes the word certainly bears that interpretation, and therefore was improper.' ' I will never submit to a rebuke of this kind.' 'That is a very improper manner for a Counsel to address the Court in.'
