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Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories

Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories

Harte, Bret
1stworld Library

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Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1421847027
ISBN13: 9781421847023
Publisher: 1St World Lib Inc
Published: Jun 15 2007
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
It may be remembered that it was the habit of that gallant war-horse of the Calaveras democracy, Colonel Starbottle, at the close of a political campaign, to return to his original profession of the Law. Perhaps it could not be called a peaceful retirement. The same fiery-tongued eloquence and full-breasted chivalry which had in turns thrilled and overawed freemen at the polls were no less fervid and embattled before a jury. Yet the Colonel was counsel for two or three pastoral Ditch companies and certain bucolic corporations, and although he managed to import into the simplest question of contract more or less abuse of opposing counsel, and occasionally mingled precedents of law with antecedents of his adversary, his legal victories were seldom complicated by bloodshed. He was only once shot at by a free-handed judge, and twice assaulted by an over-sensitive litigant.

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