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My friends here from lands large or small, as the case may be, will not understand me as intending to depre- ciate or belittle their countries, of which they are so justly proud, when I devote my attention to a great extent to your country and to mine.

I do not feel myself a foreigner in the United States.

After the closing of my court in Osgoode Hall, in Toronto, I can take a train and be, in the morning, in another Canadian city; and, being a lawyer because although I am a judge I have not ceased to be a lawyer; I am not like the other judge who, when he received Her Majestys patent appointing him to the bench, at once proceeded to sell his library and buy a new gun being still a lawyer, like all lawyers on a holiday I go to the court as actors on a holiday go to the theatre.

I see the Union Jack, under which I was born, and under which I have lived the greater part of my life, floating over the court room in the same way it does over Osgoode Hall in Toronto.

I see the judge garbed as I am garbed when I am sitting onthe bench.