Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law - Res Nova Yearbook (New York, NY)

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THE L LITER TURE LITER TURE I THE L SERVICE OF PROCESS FROM HERMAN MELVILLE'S COCK-A -DOODLE-DOO! L.--li I THESE ll -S177 TFT .Ee A L , f V V ,f ill : If he X ' ij xx'ig' vT7A O f ix some-ifL- ,g:f r ' ' f ff O G? if X IE gf -' 1 fl -if ,ff ff 'Z gli, , tif , XIX, ,,,, ,f Xl, 5 ,Af lx - 9 'K A , ,A,,. ff if ,j'ff,? aff, My is At last, after some weeks I was necessitated to clap another mortgage on my estate in order to pay certain debts, and among others the one I owed the dun, who of late had commenced a ci vil-process against me. The way the process was served was a most insulting one. In a private room I had been enjoying myself in the village tavern overa bottle of Philadelphia porter, and some Herkimer cheese, and a roll, and having apprised the landlord, who was a friend of mine, that I would settle with him when I received my next remittances, stepped to the peg where I had hung my hat in the bar- room, to get a choice cigar I had left in the hall, when lo.' I found the civil-process enveloping the cigar. When l unrolled the cigar, I unrolled the civil-process, and the constable standing by rolled out, with a thick tongue, 'Take notice! ' and added, in a whisper, 'Put that in your pipe and smoke it! ' I turned short round upon the gentlemen then and there present in that bar-room. Said I, 'Gentlemen, is this an honourable-na y, is this a lawful way of serving a civil- process? Behold. One and all they were of opinion that it was a highly inelegant act in the constable to take advantage ofa gentleman's lunching on cheese and porter, to be so uncivil as to slip a ci vil-process into his hat. It was ungenerousg it was crueI,' for the sudden shock of the thing coming instanter upon the lunch would impair the proper digestion of the cheese, which is proverbially not so easy of digestion as blanc-mange.

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