I say, it'll be rather a game if it turns out he stole his own boat, won't it?
Case of picking your own pocket, eh ?" "I don't know," said Dick.

"I don't think he did steal it.

But even if he did, you see it didn't belong to him." "It's a frightful jumble altogether," said Georgie.

"I think law's a beastly thing.

If the pawnbroker chooses to _give_ money on the boat--" "Oh, it's not the pawnbroker--it's the fellows the boat belonged to." "But, I tell you, Tom's one of the fellows himself." "Well, it's the other fellows." "We may as well have another go of chocolates now, in case they get squashed up going in," suggested Coote, who avoided the legal aspect of the case.
The door opened at last, and our heroes, some of whom knew the ways of the place, made a stampede over the forms and through the witness-box into the front seat reserved for the use of the public, where they spread themselves out luxuriously, and celebrated their achievement by a further tax on the friendly Duffield's creams.
The court rapidly filled.