Here's what the law does: The law takes a man worth six thousand dollars and up'ards, and jams him into an old trap of a cabin like this, and lets him go round in clothes that ain't fitten for a hog.

They call that govment! A man can't get his rights in a govment like this.

Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all.

Yes, and I TOLD 'em so; I told old Thatcher so to his face.

Lots of 'em heard me, and can tell what I said.