I liked his resourcefulness in the defence of difficult positions, a characteristic illustrated by the following incident which he once told me about himself. He had, not long since, parked his car and gone to a cinema. Unfortunately he had parked his car on top of one of the strips on the street by means of which tratfic-lights were at that time controlled by the passing traffic; as a result, the lights were jammed and it required four policemen to lift his car off the strip.

The police decided to prosecute. I indicated to him that this didn't surprise me at all and asked him how he fared. "Oh", he said, 'I got off?

I asked him how on earth he managed that. Quite simply, he answered, I just invoked Mill's Method of Difference. They charged me with causing an obstruction at 4.00 p.m.; and 1 answered that since my car had been parked at 2.00 p.m., it couldn't have been my car which caused the obstruction.