A lawyer's dog, running about unleashed, beelines for a butcher shop and
and steals a roast. The butcher goes to lawyer's office and asks, "If a
dog running unleashed steals a piece of meat from my store, do I have a
right to demand payment for the meat from the dog's owner?" The lawyer
answers, "Absolutely."
"Then you owe me $8.50. Your dog was loose and stole a roast from me today."
The lawyer, without a word, writes the butcher a check for $8.50 [attorneys
don't carry cash -- it's too plebeian -- and the butcher hadn't brought the
shop's credit card imprinter to the lawyer's office].
The next day, the butcher opens his mail and finds an envelope from the
lawyer: $50 due for a consultation.
