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THE JUDGE BREAKS JAIL.
The sheriff had brought the judge's supper.

He reported that the crowd was dispersing, and that on the whole public sentiment was not particularly hostile; indeed, he went so far as to say there existed a strong undercurrent of satisfaction that the jail should have so speedily justified itself.

Moreover, there was a disposition to exalt the judge as having furnished the crowning touch to the day's pleasure.
"I reckon, sir, they'd have felt obliged to string you up if there wa'n't no jail," continued the sheriff lazily from the open door where he had seated himself.

"I don't say there ain't them who don't maintain you had ought to be strung up as it is, but people are funny, sir; the majority talk like they might wish to keep you here indefinite.