The thought of the hot breakfast made the other chaps so ravenous as I believe they would have pitched into Stokes and the other two, if they hadn't have given in.

So they comes round, and we sends out to say that we had agreed on the vardict.

It were the best game I ever seed in my life." "Well, Jacob, I am sure I am heartily grateful to you, and I shall not forget your kindness; though what made you so sure of my innocence, while all the others doubted it, I don't know." "Lor', Reuben!" the smith said, "There ain't nothing to thank me about.

I didn't know nowght as to whether you was innocent or guilty; and it was a good job for me as I had made up my mind about that there vardict, afore I went into court; for I should never have made head or tail of all that talk, and the fellows with white hair on the top of their heads as kept bobbing up and down, and asking all sorts of questions, was enough to turn an honest man's head.

The question was settled when Miss Kate Ellison--that's the little un, you know--came in here.