The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1906-06-01
HE WAS SURPRISED.
HOW SPENCE HURT HIS UNCLE's
FEELINGS.

The sheep herder from Palo Verde
looked up with an exclamation of dis
gust from the newspaper he had been
reading. ut beats all get-out what
some Of these day robbers in the leg
islature will take from each other"
he said. Here's Smith, of Clay Creek,
as good as called Pete Whitney liar
an boss thief three times hard
runnin' in one speech an not leaf
stirin'."
1T amt fightin' talk there" OBJ
served the stock tender raking the
matted hair from a brush with the
curry comb. tits like my cousin in
Rapid was tellin' you about once.
Lawyers an legislators has got IL
cense to express themselves an git
away with language that would call
fer gun play In a higher state of SER
,ciety.
THAT cousin o. mine, / remember
how he got his start in the law busi-
ness. 1t was through an uncle O.
mine an his who took fancy to
Spence, an staked him to his eder-
cation. He didn't take no fancy to
me, or l might have been payin' out
slack jaw in Prince Albert coat my
self Std O. chambermaidin' in this yer
barn.
"He TUX Spence when he come out o
school an put him in Judge Sanaper's
law Office an paid his board He wus
allus gittin' inter some lawn scrape
or another himself, wuz my uncle,
an he calculated he'd play even by
gittin' Spence to tend to his differcul-
ties, I guess.
"Well, fin'ly Spence got admitted TO
the bar an my uncle he fixed him out
with an office of his own over the store
next the Odd Fellows lodge room. He
hadn't been up there week afore Cal
'Teddicum came to him an wantee him
TO sue Garrett Hebb on note he'd got
O. Garrett's. Spence didn't want 10
take the case because Garrett was
good friend of his an he'd give the
note to pay fer cow that died OF the
ldistemper the day after he'd got her.
But my uncle butted in. Friendship
don't cut any fgger in the law Dusi-
ness, he says. Take the case an push
1T
"'But I'll have to rake Garrett over
The Goals if do says Spence
whats the difference? says my
uncle Rake him. Give him blazes.
"'What'll people think of me fer
goin' back on friend?' says Spence
"They won't think nothin' of it.
saws my uncle Everybody under
stands that it's your dooty to do it.
Nobody won't think any the worse OF
you
".Garrett will says Spence.
"'Not if he's got lick o. sense'
says my uncle. He'll shake nands
after it's all over an be jest as good
"a friend as ever.
$50 Spence took the case agin Gar
rett an won it. My uncle was tickleo
to death, but Garrett want. He up an
give Spence the darndedest ,lickin' you
ever seen an smashed haf OF the once
furniture.
"Two DAYS after that Spence went tt
INV uncle an told him the glad news
that he'd got another case. The Wld'
der Grimsly had got him to defend
suit nv uncle had brought agin her.
"My uncle was wrathy that time, an
1t took Spence long while to smooff
him down. But Judge Sanaper nae
started the suit an my uncle calculat
ed he'd make short work o Spence
anyway an it 'ud be lesson to him
1t sure ought to have been, but Spence
as worse now than he ever was"
"Did he lose the case?" asked tn
sheep herder
mo. he won it," said the stocktend
Ter. "He got jury trial OF it somenoV
an had my uncle in the witness cnal
an turned him inside out an roasted
him an basted him. When he make
mis- talk to the jury he shakes his fin
ger at my uncle an says, There sit
the hoary repprybate,' he says 'Ther
sets the heartless, conscienceles
would-be despoiler of the wilder an
the fatherless, he says. See the blusl
o. shame mantlin' on his cheek b
saws. An we'll it may mantle, hard
ened In the ways O. sin an inquiry d
he is. Gentlemen, he didn't recko
when he entered this poor defendant
nome ~ b honeyed smile upon nj
perjured lips an black deceit IN nj
heart that the vileness of this trans
action would be dragged out to tn
hight o. day an held up to the scor
an horror of the world. He calcr
lated he had a weak, defenseless VIC
man to deal with, an his low cunnin
whispered that he could bluff her ou
of her house an home an grab tn
crust from outen the mouths OF he
fatberless babes an set 'em adrift o
the cold world. Gentlemen O. tn
Jury he says, lin all my experience m
1eeIin's have never been shocked D