You shall also see how right well and featly our no-bel and intrepid young hero bore himself, just a-pitchin' and a-rarin', when inclination jibed with jooty!" Two minutes later they took the curve by the big gate on two wheels.

As they straightened into the river road, Mr.Sedgwick spread one hand over his heart, rolled his eyes heavenward and observed with fine dramatic effect: "'I claim your pr-r-r-r-omise'!" Mr.Johnson sat in a cell of Vesper Jail, charged with assault and battery in the _n_th degree; drunk and disorderly understood, but that charge unpreferred as yet.

It is no part of legal method to bring one accused of intoxication before the magistrate at once, so that the judicial mind may see for itself.

By this capital arrangement, the justly intoxicated may be acquitted for lack of convincing evidence, after they have had time to sober up; while the unjustly accused, who should go free on sight, are at the mercy of such evidence as the unjust accuser sees fit to bring or send.
The Messrs.

Poole had executed their commission upon Vesper Bridge, pouncing upon Mr.Johnson as he passed between them, all unsuspecting.
They might well have failed in their errand, however, had it not been that Mr.Johnson was, in a manner of speaking, in dishabille, having left his gun at the hotel.