Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

A SWISS LAW SUIT.

In one of the valleys near Mont-Blanc, Frantz went one evening to Gaspard, who was turning his hay, and said, "my friend, the time is come to get up this hay--you know there is a dispute about this meadow, to whom it belong, you or me; to decide the question, I have assembled together the appointed Judges at Salenche; so come along with me to-morrow and state your claims." "You see, Frantz," answered Gaspard, "that the hay is ready; it is therefore absolutely necessary that I should get it up to-morrow--I cannot leave it."
"And I cannot send away the Judges, who have chosen the day themselves; besides we must know to whom the meadow belongs before it is cleared." They debated some time: at length, Gaspard said to Frantz--"Go to Salenche, tell the Judges my reason, as well as your own, and then I need not go myself." Frantz pleaded for and against himself, and to the best of his power gave in his own claims, as well as those of Gaspard. When the Judges had pronounced their opinions, he returned to his friend, saying--"The meadow is thine; the sentence is in thy favor; I wish you good luck with the hay." Frantz and Gaspard have ever after remained good friends.