Like all Persons destined to fall out, Messrs. Doe and Roe exchange eternal
Professions of mutual Regard - Mr. D. proposes a rough and ready Cure
for what Mr. R. pronounces to be no Ailment
Second Letter and Answer.
Mr. Doe takes a flying Tour through the History of the Law of Real Pro-
perty and like an unmannered Boor finds fault with everything he sees -
Mr. Roe points out the natural Beauties that appear upon the Journey
Terrific Onslaught on Technical Language - Repulsed with much Slaughter.. 49
John Doe turns manufacturing Geologist-and from the Law's Technicality
produces the Rock of Technicality — Description thereof and of its
Inhabitants, with passing Notice of the Rock of Simplicity-Moral of
"Every Man his own Lawyer" and of quarrelling with your Solicitor-
A Lord Chancellor's Coachman drives a Coach and four through an Act
of Parliament, knocking down a famous Civilian on the way-A Surgeon
attempts to amputate an Entail and is in consequence impaled on a large
Forceps-Curious Hallucination under which a Master of the Rolls'
Butler was supposed to labour-A Baptism of Law and its attendant
Consequence (the happy Settlement in Life of a young Solicitor)—
described-The Structures of the Rock of Technicality-(Range of the
Rule in Shelley's Case - The Region Deusibus-The Magician's Domain,
&c.) The Court of Chancery severely castigated
Richard Roe resolves the Rocks of Technicality and Simplicity into the Sea
of Confusion and Haven of Order, respectively-A "loose fish" and
"fast fish" contrasted-A Lord Mayor and his Bonnet-strings-The
Court of Chancery has its Wounds healed
A wearisome Account of Conveyances with a wind up of Registration, in
which the Land Transfer Bill is absurdly puffed
Less wearisome than the preceding Letter-The Land Transfer Bill has its
Head punched
The Land Transfer Bill is bolstered up and made stronger than ever