[Pee-Wee Harris Adrift by Percy Keese Fitzhugh]@TWC D-Link bookPee-Wee Harris Adrift CHAPTER XIV 4/12
Suppose Cape Cod should break off and float away.
Would it belong to New Hampshire any more--I mean Connecticut--I mean Massachusetts? Gee whiz, we're going to stay right here because we're on a public waterway and anyway you don't own the scow that this land is on, do you ?" There was, of course, no answer to this fine analysis of the legal points involved. "That there scow was under my land," said old Trimmer. "It was in the river and it wasn't on anybody's land as I understand it," said Townsend in his funny way.
"Your land trespassed on the scow----" "Sure it did!" interrupted Pee-wee.
"It really had no right to do that, Mr.Trimmer, unless you can show that you own the scow.
As I understand it this is a kind of a legal sandwich.
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