Mr. Bumpkin's Lawsuit: or How to Win Your Opponent's Case:

From the Preface. When Old Fogeyism is being lowered to his last resting place, Pettyfoggism, being his chief mourner, will be so overwhelmed with grief that he will tumble into the same grave. How then to hasten the demise of this venerable Humbug is the question. Some are for letting him die a natural death, others for reducing him gradually by a system of slow starvation: for myself, I confess, I am for knocking him on the head at once. Until this event, so long wished for by all the fri...