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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories, by Bret Harte This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories Author: Bret Harte Release Date: May 27, 2006 [EBook #2784] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COLONEL STARBOTTLE'S CLIENT *** Produced by Donald Lainson COLONEL STARBOTTLE'S CLIENT By Bret Harte CONTENTS COLONEL STARBOTTLE'S CLIENT THE POSTMISTRESS OF LAUREL RUN A NIGHT AT "HAYS" JOHNSON'S "OLD WOMAN" THE NEW ASSISTANT AT PINE CLEARING SCHOOL IN A PIONEER RESTAURANT A TREASURE OF THE GALLEON OUT OF A PIONEER'S TRUNK THE GHOSTS OF STUKELEY CASTLE COLONEL STARBOTTLE'S CLIENT. CHAPTER I. 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. Nevertheless, it was thought merely prudent, while preparing the papers in the well known case of "The Arcadian Shepherds' Association of Tuolumne versus the Kedron Vine and Fig Tree Growers of Calaveras," that the Colonel should seek with a shotgun the seclusion of his partner's law office in the sylvan outskirts of Rough and Ready for that complete rest and serious preoccupation which Marysville could not afford. It was an exceptionally hot day. The painted shingles of the plain wooden one-storied building in which the Colonel sat were w
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