You take, don't you ?' "'I'm up to snuff, Sir,' sais I, 'and no mistake.' I know'd well enough that warn't what he sent for me for, by the way he humm'd and hawed when he began.
"'Taking up a trunk, as every hotel-keeper does and has a right to do, and examinin' the name on the brass plate to the eend on't, is one thing; forcin' the lock and ransackin' the contents, is another.

One is precaution, the other is burglary.' "'It tante burglary,' sais I, 'unless the lodger sleeps in his trunk.
It's only--' "'Well,' says he, a colourin' up, 'that's technical.

I leave these matters to my law officers.' "I larnt that little matter of law from brother Eldad, the lawyer, but I guess I was wrong there.

I don't think I had ought to have given him that sly poke; but I didn't like his talkin' that way to me.

Whenever a feller tries to pull the wool over your eyes, it's a sign he don't think high of your onderstandin'.