It was jest like the doctor says to Looey: "By George," he says, "it is a well-nigh perfect thing.

If you lose you lose, and if you win you lose." Well, the doctor, he had started out winning the night before.

And Si Emery and Ralph Scott had arrested them.

And that morning, while I had been laying by the crick and the rest of the town was seeing the fun, they had been took afore Squire Matthews and fined one hundred and twenty-five dollars apiece.

The doctor, he tells Squire Matthews it is an outrage, and it ain't legal if tried in a bigger court, and they ain't that much money in the world so fur as he knows, and he won't pay it.