Old Ebenezer

Old Ebenezer

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Old Ebenezer by Opie Percival Read

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nts that may never come. I am going to do something."

CHAPTER III.

THE TIMELY ORACLE.

A year passed by. Caruthers dozed with his cob pipe between the fingers of his limp hand, waiting for clients whose step was not heard upon the stairs. But the office had not been wholly without business. Once a man called to seek advice, which was given, free, as an advertisement for more work from his neighborhood, and once Lyman had defended a man charged with the theft of a sheep. The mutton was found in the fellow's closet and the hide of the animal was discovered under his bed; and with such evidence against him it was not expected that a lawyer could do much, so, when the prisoner was sentenced to the penitentiary, Caruthers congratulated his partner with the remark: "That was all right. We can't expect to win every time. But we were not so badly defeated; you got him off with one year, and he deserved two. To cut a thief's sentence

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I love Opie Reed and have read all his books. They are all light-hearted, romantic stories and I recommend them all equally. The title of this book can be mis-leading as you might think Old Ebenezer is about an old man, but that is actually the name of the town. The story is about a man in an new town starting a new career and through a unique twist mistakenly gets married. Very entertaining!