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Irvin S. Cobb. Old Judge Priest
Old Judge Priest
Table of Contents
OLD JUDGE PRIEST
I. THE LORD PROVIDES
II. A BLENDING OF THE PARABLES
III. JUDGE PRIEST COMES BACK
IV. A CHAPTER FROM THE LIFE OF AN ANT
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V. SERGEANT JIMMY BAGBY'S FEET
VI. ACCORDING TO THE CODE
VII. FORREST'S LAST CHARGE
VIII. DOUBLE-BARRELLED JUSTICE
IX. A BEAUTIFUL EVENING *
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Irvin S. Cobb
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Behind the hearse came a closed coach. We used to call them coaches when they figured in funerals, carriages when used for lodge turnouts, and plain hacks when they met the trains and boats. In the coach rode four women. The world at large had a way of calling them painted women; but this day their faces were not painted nor were they garishly clad. For the time they were merely women—neither painted women nor fallen women—but just women.
And that was nearly all, but not quite. At one side of the hearse, opposite the slowly turning front wheels, trudged Judge Priest, carrying in the crook of one bent arm a book. It wouldn't be a law book, for they commonly are large books, bound in buff leather, and this book was small and flat and black in colour. On the other side of the hearse, with head very erect and eyes fixed straight ahead and Sunday's best coat buttoned tightly about his sparse frame, walked another old man, Doctor Lake.
