LAST WORDS XVI

From Reader's Digest 

Contributed by Walter Bryan 

   An Irish attorney was making the best of a rather shaky case when the judge interrupted him on a point of law. "Surely," he asked, "your clients are aware of the doctrine of de minimis non curat lex?"

   "I assure you, my lord," came the suave reply, "that, in the remote and inhospitable hamlet where my clients have their humble abode, it forms the sole topic of conversation."