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By Advice of Counsel — Arthur Cheney Train

Book · Language: English · Level: hard · Author: Arthur Cheney Train · ≈ 456 min · 68449 words

Topics: класика

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Being Adventures of the Celebrated Firm of

Tutt & Tutt

Attorneys & Counsellors at Law

By

Arthur Train

With Frontispiece

By Arthur William Brown

The Shyster

Shyster, n. [Origin obscure.] One who does business trickily; a person without professional honor: used chiefly of lawyers; as, pettifoggers and shysters.--CENTURY DICTIONARY.

When Terry McGurk hove the brick through the window of Froelich's butcher shop he did it casually, on general principles, and without any idea of starting anything. He had strolled unexpectedly round the corner from his dad's saloon, had seen the row going on between Froelich and the gang of boys that after school hours used the street in front of the shop as a ball ground,…

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Published March, 1921

Source: gutenberg.org/ebooks/11987

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