Colonel Starbottle's Client (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515094470)

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.

Author: Bret Harte
ISBN-10: 1515094472
ISBN-13: 9781515094470
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2015
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.18d