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