Unlearned, But Wise

"Fin after justice rather than law, " aid John Dudley, who for 21 years, 'rom 1770 to 1791, was one of the most popular judges of New Hampshire. He vas unleanied in the law, and his eduation was so defective that he could not write íive consecutive seutences in orrfcct English. Yet so acceptably did ie discharge his judicial duties that Chief Justice Parsons of Massachusetts, ne of the rnost learned of lawyers, said f him, "We may sraile at his law and idicule his language, yet Dudley, take dm all in all, was the greatest and best udge I ever knew in New Hampshire. "