E.C. REYNOLDS.




THE LADY LAWYER'S FIRST CLIENT.

TWO PARTS.

I.

Mrs. Tarbell sat in her office, pretending to read a law-journal, but
really looking at her name on the office door; and she was not without
justification, perhaps, seeing that it had taken her six years to get it
there. Furthermore, though it was six weeks since it had been lettered
upon the glass panel, she had as yet found nothing to do but look at it.
She was at last a lawyer; she had triumphed over prejudice and ridicule;
and a young lawyer has three privileges,--he may write Esquire after his
name, he is exempt from jury duty, and he can wait for clients. Mrs.
Tarbell had always been exempt from jury duty, and her brother told her
that, historically speaking, she ought to be called _equestrienne_, if
she was to have any title: so it seemed that it was only left to her to
wait for clients and contemplate her sign. The sign read,--

Ellen G. Tarbell,
Alex. H. Juddson,
Attorneys-at-Law.
Commissioner for Colorado.

Mrs. Tarbell had been a Miss Juddson before her marriage with ---- Tarbell,