He saw the figure in the ashes ?" "What do you know about it ?--you wasn't there." "No, but I'm going to make you tell what was there." "You are, huh?
Well, you crack yer whip.

I like to see any feller make me tell anything I don't want to tell." "That's right, Curly," said some one back in the crowd.

"No bluff goes." "Not in a hundred!" said Curly.
"Now, now, now!" began the judge drowsily.

The prosecuting attorney counselled of craftiness, at this juncture, foreseeing trouble if he insisted.

"Take the witness," he said abruptly.
"Cross-'xamine, d'fence," said the judge, settling back.
"Now, Curly," said Franklin, as he took up the questioning again, "please tell us what Juan did after he saw this supposed figure in the ashes." "Why, now, Cap, you know that just as well as I do." "Yes, but I want you to tell these other folks about it." "Well, of course, Juan acted plenty _loco_--you know that." "Very well.