Five essentials of courtship were laid down by Mr. S. J. P. Merlin, counsel for a Redhill man who was ordered to pay one farthing damages for breach of promise.
Counsel contended that all of the essentials were absent from this case. He gave the first three—love letters, engagement ring, and the introduction to the respective families.
The Judge: "I have exhausted them when I think of those three. What are the others?"
Counsel said the others were the giving of presents and the taking of lover-like expeditions and outings.
"Look back at your own engagements, ladies and gentlemen," he urged the jury.
Can you say," he asked, " that during that period any one of the five was absent?"
The jury merely smiled. will be held must be fixed. Thereafter the party starts for Bandong in the Preanger Mountains with an extra-train of the State railways and in Bandong the most interesting volcanic environs wil] be visit-
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