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in to see each other, neighbors have a speaking acquaintance out of which they make an estimate of a man. I found myself making a rather good estimate of him.

By that time in '14 or '15 he had descended to practising very shabby law, I understand. I believe that was the kind of law practise he had come out of. He had belonged to an ambulance chasing firm, but they were not above taking other shady cases. That was the reputation he had, certainly. I never knew any of that of my own knowledge.

At the same time he impressed me in the way some of the very independent, take-it-or-leave-it people that I know from the State of Maine do - very high handed, but very independent and on the whole reasonably good citizens, but above everything else having a passion for independence and for liberty. These are the people down there who carry on feuds with regard to whether you're fishing in their waters. You may think you had a right to, and the law would indicate you had, but this is where the people from a certain island fish and you just better not fish there. When they go to enforce their law they just look like judges of the Supreme Court. They are very high-handed, but they have a code of their own and they enforce it, and you let them alone. It's sort of commonly understood that that independent type has