The popular fallacy that women are lengthy talkers is not being borne out in the English law courts by women barristers, Recently Miss Ashford, in the Surrey Assizes at Guilford, listened to the male prosecutor make a long and exhaustive denunciation of the defendant in a burglary case.
When he had finished at last Miss Ashford aros* and said: "I have no case to meet. I could say more if your Lordship desires." The judge simply remarked: "Brevity ig the soul.of wit. Tha prisoner is discharged.
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