All the lights
in the lawyers' offices and places of business were out except
a solitary gleam which came from the office of my friend
H. He was sitting up alone, soaking himself with the contents
of a bottle of brandy. General Day found him sitting there
and stated his case. My friend heard it through, took it
into consideration, and took down and consulted the Revised
Statutes and the Digest. At last he shook his head with an
air of drunken gravity and said: "I don't find any express
provision anywhere for such a case. So I think we must be
governed by the rule of law for the case nearest like it we
can find. That seems to be the case of the attachment of
personal property, such as lumber, which is too bulky to be
removed. My advice to you is to put a placard on him saying
he is attached, and go off and leave him till Monday morning."
When I was a young man, one summer a few years after my admission
to the Bar, I took a journey on foot with Horace Gray through
Berkshire County. We started from Greenfield and walked over
the Hoosac Mountain to Adams and Williamstown, then over the
old road to Pittsfield, then to Stockbridge, Great Barrington,
and the summit of Mt.
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