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Updated: May 22, 2025
It seemed so strange that here was come a day in which he did not have to put up a regular stint of eight vinegar-barrels, with the privilege of doing one or two more, if he could, for pay. He ate some breakfast with Lurton. For freedom is a great tonic, and satisfied hopes help digestion.
So he arranged to borrow law-books, and faithfully used his two hours of candle in studying. He calculated that in ten years if he should survive ten years of life in a cell he could lay a foundation for eminence in legal learning. Thus he made vinegar-barrels all day, and read Coke on Littleton on Blackstone at night. His money received from the contractor for over-work, he used to buy law-books.
We would not exult over the downfall of any man; but when the proud young Charlton gets his hair cropped, and finds himself clad in 'Stillwater gray, and engaged in the intellectual employments of piling shingles and making vinegar-barrels, he will have plenty of time for meditation on that great moral truth, that honesty is generally the best policy."
"Sweet as a nut, both of 'em," he announced, definitely. That settled it; Westbury was acknowledged authority. Sam rolled out two vinegar-barrels, both pronounced good.
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