He said: "Charles Allen has abused me all
through this trial. He is always abusing me. He has abused
me ever since I came to this Bar. I have said it before and
I will say it again--_he is a curious kind of a man."_ This
utterance relieved Brother Bacon's wounded feelings and he
never probably thought of the matter again.
One of the great events in Bacon's life was his receiving
the degree of Doctor of Laws from Brown University, where
he was graduated. This gave infinite satisfaction to his
brethren of the Bar, who were all very fond of him. It was
at once proposed, after the old Yankee fashion in the country
when a man got a new hat or a new suit of clothes, that we
should all go down to T.'s to "wet" it. T. was the proprietor
of a house a few miles from Worcester, famous for cooking
game and trout in the season, and not famous for a strict
observance of the laws against the sale of liquor. There
was a good deal of feeling about that among the temperance
people of the town, although it was a most excellent, properly
kept house in all other respects. But the prejudice against
it of the strict teetotalers had occasioned some entirely
unfounded scandal about its management in other matters.
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