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]
and straightway forgot her fear, herself, and everything else but
the unspeakable delight which the music gave her, for it was like
the voice of a beloved friend.
She stayed till Hannah came to take her home to dinner, but she
had no appetite, and could only sit and smile upon everyone in a
general state of beatitude.
After that, the little brown hood slipped through the hedge
nearly every day, and the great drawing room was haunted by a tuneful
spirit that came and went unseen. She never knew that Mr. Laurence
opened his study door to hear the old-fashioned airs he liked. She
never saw Laurie mount guard in the hall to warn the servants away.
She never suspected that the exercise books and new songs which she
found in the rack were put there for her especial benefit, and when
he talked to her about music at home, she only thought how kind he
was to tell things that helped her so much. So she enjoyed herself
heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted
wish was all she had hoped. Perhaps it was because she was so grateful
for this blessing that a greater was given her. At any rate she
deserved both.
"Mother, I'm going to work Mr. Laurence a pair of slippers. He
is so kind to me, I must thank him, and I don't know any other way.
Can I do it?" asked Beth, a few weeks after that eventful call of his.
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]