his new recruit, and went off up street
to see what counsel he could get in the matter. All the lights
in the lawyers' offices and places of business were out except
a solitary gleam which came from the office of my friend
H. He was sitting up alone, soaking himself with the contents
of a bottle of brandy. General Day found him sitting there
and stated his case. My friend heard it through, took it
into consideration, and took down and consulted the Revised
Statutes and the Digest. At last he shook his head with an
air of drunken gravity and said: "I don't find any express
provision anywhere for such a case. So I think we must be
governed by the rule of law for the case nearest like it we
can find. That seems to be the case of the attachment of
personal property, such as lumber, which is too bulky to be
removed. My advice to you is to put a placard on him saying
he is attached, and go off and leave him till Monday morning."

When I was a young man, one summer a few years after my admission
to the Bar, I took a journey on foot with Horace Gray through
Berkshire County. We started from Greenfield and walked over
the Hoosac Mountain to Adams and Williamstown, then over the
old road to Pittsfield, then to Stockbridge, Great Barrington,
and the summit of Mt. Washington, now better known as Mt.
Everett or Taghsomi; thence to Bashpish Falls in New York,
and to the Salisbury Lakes in Connecticut. We visited many
interesting places and enjoyed what has always seemed to me
the most beautiful scenery on earth.

There were one or two quite ludicrous adventures. I went
alone to the top of Bald Mountain in Lenox one day. Gray
had been there and preferred to visit a neighboring hilltop.
As I approached the summit, which was a bare pasture, I came
upon a powerful bull with a herd of cattle near him. He began
to bellow and paw the ground and move toward me in angry fashion.
There was no chance for any place of refuge which I could
hope to gain. I looked around for some rock or instrument
of defence. It was, I think, the most imminent danger to
which I have ever been exposed. I was calculating my capacity
for dodging the creature when suddenly a sound like a small
clap of thunder was heard. The rest of the herd, which seemed
quite wild, seeing the approach of a stranger, had taken alarm
and started off down the hillside on a full run, their rushing
and trampling causing the earth to reverberate beneath their
tread