A lawyer's dog, running about unleashed,

beelines for a butcher shop and steals a roast.

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.
Several periods of time later the butcher

opens the mail and finds an envelope from

the lawyer:

$20 due for a consultation.