1. Billy Budd (Full)
  2. Draft Chapter: Lawyers, Experts, Clergy
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[Editors' Note: The following leaves represent a chapter that Melville removed from Billy Budd. Its adopted version appears as a few lines in Chapter 21.] 353 For Billy Budd ——>Find proper place for insertion
Lawyers, Experts, Clergy
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This it is that makes
An Episode New Chapter ——//——
the most perilous of God's creatures. by the way —
Can it be this the phenomenon,
upon wh disowned or at least conceded not acknowledged, that in some
criminal cases puzzles the courts? And
for For this cause have our juries in
at times not only to endure the prolonged
contentions of the feed lawyers with their fees, but also the
yet more perplexing strife of the feed
medical experts with theirs ? — But why leave all
it to them? laity laymen? why not subpoena (?)
as well the clerical proficients? Restore Their vocation
[Editors' Note: The following leaves represent a chapter that Melville removed from Billy Budd. Its adopted version appears as a few lines in Chapter 21.] 353 For Billy Budd ——>Find proper place for insertion
Lawyers, Experts, Clergy
——//——
This it is that makes
An Episode New Chapter ——//——
the most perilous of God's creatures. by the way —
Can it be this the phenomenon,
upon wh disowned or at least conceded not acknowledged, that in some
criminal cases puzzles the courts? And
for For this cause have our juries in
at times not only to endure the prolonged
contentions of the feed lawyers with their fees, but also the
yet more perplexing strife of the feed
medical experts with theirs ? — But why leave all
it to them? laity laymen? why not subpoena (?)
as well the clerical proficients? Restore Their vocation

Transcribed by: Wyn Kelley