The Jonny-Cake Papers of "Sheperd Tom," Together with Reminiscences of Narragansett Schools of Former Days; Together with Reminiscences of Narragansett Schools of Former Days (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Appendix APRETENDED obituary, written by Charles Blake to caricature the style of Lawyer Ned Hazard. See note, page 210. Charles Blake "I count myself in nothing else to hafifiy As in a tout remembering my good friends." Charles has gone I was never more stricken than when Payne -- why isn't he in Congress to-day--said those words to me last night. I was hardly able to bear the blow, for I had been till past midnight conferring with a client indicted for stealing from his mother, a very worthy woman, who has been a domestic upward of forty years in the family of Robert Ives, and a more interesting case was never before a jury, unless I except that on Crowninshield, and all of my readers have heard of Webster's splendid effort in behalf of the commonwealth against him. I was present at the time and was mute with wonder and delight. I hope some day to write an account of it. "Why must the good die and we who lament them Live beneath the glimfiscs of the moon?" Isn't that from Hamlet, Mr. Editor? Blake could have told me --I think I see him now as he used to stand when the fee table was unrepealed--and I never knew a law the repeal of which was more earnestly demanded for the ends of public justice and the peace of the bar than that same fee table. I see him now with this bill in his hand presenting it to me as he had often done before with a smile that headed off my too ready oath and a sarcasm as subtle as goodnatured against those needy wretches who, like myself, had more brains than money--I use his own words. When his office was in the cellar of the Old Court House (When are those beautiful speeches of Chief Justice Durfee and my brother Payne at the dedication of the New Court House to be published ?) he had much trouble with rheumatic pains, and I can recal...