Amusing Trial in which a Yankee Lawyer Renders a Just Verdict
Amusing Trial, in Which a Yankee Lawyer Rendered a Just Verdict. Published at the Office of the Youth's Cabinet, 126 Fulton Street. NEW YORK. 1841. [Illustration: _A Slave sold at Auction._] A time there was, when no one thought It sin, to hold a slave he'd bought, And of his strength have the command, As much as of his house and land. A Yankee Lawyer long had kept A negro-man with whom he slept. [Illustration]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I A NEW BOY AND AN OLD ONE . . 3
II CAPTAIN INNES RECEIVES . . . 18
III AMY AIRS HIS VIEWS . . . 31
IV CLINT CUTS PRACTICE . . . 42
V ON THE SECOND . . . . 53
VI THE RUNAWAY WHEEL . . . . 65
VII LOST! . . . . . . 77
VIII THE MYSTERIOUS AUTO . . . 89
IX UNDER SUSPICION . . . . 104
X BURIED TREASURE . . . . 118
XI BRIMFIELD MEETS DEFEAT . . . 129
XII PENNY LOSES HIS TEMPER . . . 148
XIII AMY WINS A CUP . . . . 163
XIV THE TEAM TAKES REVENGE . . . 180
XV A BROKEN FIDDLE . . . . 196
XVI AMY TAKES A HAND . . . . 210
XVII A STRANGER INTERRUPTS . . . 223
XVIII A RAID ON THE SECOND . . . 233
XIX MR. DETWEILER INSTRUCTS. . . 244
Amusing Trial, in Which a Yankee Lawyer Rendered a Just Verdict. Published at the Office of the Youth's Cabinet, 126 Fulton Street. NEW YORK. 1841. [Illustration: _A Slave sold at Auction._] A time there was, when no one thought It sin, to hold a slave he'd bought, And of his strength have the command, As much as of his house and land. A Yankee Lawyer long had kept A negro-man with whom he slept. [Illustration]