flashes of wit and humor in which his genial na ture so much delighted." The reader will find a fuller memorial of Judge Kent in Vol. VIII, p. 449, of the

Maine Historical Society, and from which I have taken some of foregoing article. It was prepared by the late Hon. John E. Godfrey.

CUMBER v. WANE. 1. Sm. L. C. 366.

Temp. 1719.

 7HO pays a part in lieu of all

Knows not the mystic legal art; For on him for the rest they fall Who pays a part. One Wane had touched his Cumber s heart. "Give me a third your debt : I'll call It settled," said he in the mart; Yet sued and gained the rest. The hall Rang loud with plaints : " Ah! well-timed dart! He pays the rest with rising gall Who pays a part." — Lays of a Limb of Ihe Law

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