All any of 'em care for is to get people into trouble so they can charge 'em fees to get 'em out of it.

So I thought mebby you'd like to hear of this case so you could kind of mull it over in your mind whilst you're loafin' up here." "That was kind of you," said Toole.
"I always like to do a good turn when I can," said the Colonel, "when it don't cost nothin'.

An' this case I was tellin' you about is a mighty good one for a young lawyer to study over.

Soon as I heard of it I says to myself 'I'll tell this case to Attorney Toole, an' he'll be grateful to hear of it.'" The country client usually begins in some such way as this, anxious to get all the advice he can without having to pay for it, and Toole merely smiled.
"Mebby you know," said the Colonel, "that there was a feller took board of Sally Briggs a while back; feller by the name of William Rossiter, that come through here peddlin' lightnin' rods and pain killer and land knows what all.

Well, he was a rascal.