He's hardly a chance to git cl'ar now, for the regilators are pretty much up to all his tricks, and he's mighty nigh to ride a rail for a colt, and get new _scores_ ag'in old scores, laid on with the smartest hickories in natur'." "And who are the regulators ?" asked the youth, languidly.
"What! you from Georgy, and never to hear tell of the regilators?
Why, that's the very place, I reckon, where the breed begun.

The regilators are jest then, you see, our own people.

We hain't got much law and justice in these pairts, and when the rascals git too sassy and plentiful, we all turn out, few or many, and make a business of cleaning out the stables.

We turn justices, and sheriffs, and lawyers, and settle scores with the growing sinners.

We jine, hand in hand, agin such a chap as Jared Bunce, and set in judgment upon his evil-doings.