COWARDICE COURT
By George Barr McCutcheon
Illustrated by Harrison Fisher
COWARDICE COURT
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I—IN WHICH A YOUNG MAN TRESPASSES
CHAPTER II—IN WHICH A YOUNG WOMAN TRESPASSES
CHAPTER III—IN WHICH A DOG TRESPASSES
CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH THE TRUTH TRESPASSES
CHAPTER V—IN WHICH DAN CUPID TRESPASSES
CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH A GHOST TRESPASSES
CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH THE AUTHOR TRESPASSES
CHAPTER I—IN WHICH A YOUNG MAN TRESPASSES
He's just an infernal dude, your lordship, and I 'll throw him in the river if he says a word too much.”
“He has already said too much, Tompkins, confound him, don't you know.”
“Then I 'm to throw him in whether he says anything or not, sir?”
“Have you seen him?”
“No, your lordship, but James has. James says he wears a red coat and—”
“Never mind, Tompkins. He has no right to fish on this side of that log. The insufferable ass may own the land on the opposite side, but, confound his impertinence, I own it on this side.”
This concluding assertion of the usually placid but now irate Lord Bazelhurst was not quite as momentous as it sounded. As a matter of fact, the title to the land was vested entirely in his young American wife; his sole possession, according to report, being a title much less substantial but a great deal more picturesque than the large, much-handled piece of paper down in the