I quoted the Greeks and Romans to 'em, sir; I gave 'em the salient points on mediaeval law; and they were dumfounded and speechless.

I reckon they'd never heard such an exposition of fundamental principles; I showed 'em the germ and I showed 'em fruition.

Damn it, sir, they were overwhelmed by the array of facts I marshaled for 'em.

They said they'd never met with such erudition--no more they had, for I boiled down thirty years of study into ten minutes of talk! I flogged 'em with facts, and then we drank--" The judge smacked his lips.

"It is this free-handed hospitality I like; it's this that gives life its gala aspect." He forgot former experiences; but without this kindly refusal of memory to perform its wonted functions, the world would have been a chill place indeed for Slocum Price.