Sonnets and love-songs, and Irene; a memoir . sappointed efforts and par-tial successes all of which combined have made himwhat he is and is yet to be. Then we read about histrip from Alaska in a canoe and the loneliness andthe danger of it all ; and some day after our ship €OMES in and all OUR WORK IS DONE AND WE AREFREE WE ARE BOTH GOING ON ANOTBER CANOE TRIPOVER THAT SAME WILD WASTE, HE AND I TOGETHER, ANDOH WHAT A DELIGHTFUL TIME WE ARE GOING TO HAVE. Last week while Mr. C was in Miami George spent his spare time during three days looking up the law with regard to L s difficulty. He found
Sonnets and love-songs, and Irene; a memoir . sappointed efforts and par-tial successes all of which combined have made himwhat he is and is yet to be. Then we read about histrip from Alaska in a canoe and the loneliness andthe danger of it all ; and some day after our ship €OMES in and all OUR WORK IS DONE AND WE AREFREE WE ARE BOTH GOING ON ANOTBER CANOE TRIPOVER THAT SAME WILD WASTE, HE AND I TOGETHER, ANDOH WHAT A DELIGHTFUL TIME WE ARE GOING TO HAVE. Last week while Mr. C was in Miami George spent his spare time during three days looking up the law with regard to L s difficulty. He found there was no ordinance against selling liquor on Sundaysbesides several other points. Day before yesterdaythey had the trial and Georges work had not been in vain. L was acquitted although his case had appeared almost hopeless at first. I was delighted, not because I want L or any other man to sell whisky or any other intoxicating liquor on Sunday oron any other day, but because I want 0. <k C. to chill^em and curry em wherever they SONNETS AND LOA^E SONGS, 23T On the twenty-third I wrote: EvERNiA Street, June 23ri>. The preceding entrytells about the most exciting feature of my lastw^eeks life, viz the L trial. L is a saloon kepeer but he is and has always been my loyal client as wellas the firms client and so there was a special reasoneven more than the fee there was in it why we shouldget him free. It was two interests of my life was my early formed temperance tendenciesrunning up against my gratitude, my pride, and afterall my duty, for it is a law^yers duty to defend who-ever asks for his assistance. As Irene has said I have recently allowed my cor-respondence and in fact every other interest but lawto go by the board. It is work^ eat, make love andsleep from one wrecks end to another. But even thatis quite a satisfaction. I never felt more happy inmy life—substantially happy I mean—for I haveoften been in a fooPs paradise that perhaps for thet
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