"I wonder how I'd look in it?"
"Try it on and see," suggested Rex.
"Oh, do, do, Charlie! it'll be such fun!" pleaded Selwyn. So, nothing
loth, Charlie slipped on the long black silk robe, then Rex and Selwyn
arranged the thin white muslin bands at his throat, and settled the big
white wig on his head. His soft, dark hair was brushed well off his
face so that not a lock escaped from beneath the wig, and when he put
on a pair of Uncle Geof's spectacles, which lay conveniently near, the
boys were convulsed with laughter at his appearance.
"Good-day, your 'ludship,'" said Rex, with a mocking bow; "will your
'ludship' hold court to-day?"
"Yes, let's have court and try a prisoner," cried Charlie, who began to
feel rather proud of his unusual appearance. "You don't mind, do you,
Rex?"
"Why, no! I think it'll be no end of fun," was the merry reply. "One
of us could be the prisoner, and the other the barrister who defends
him. I'd better be the barrister, because I know more about English
law than Selwyn does.
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