I never see a case Heman wouldn't accept, if there was as much as seventy-five cents in it.

If bananas was a nickel a bunch the only part he'd throw in anybody else's way would be the skins." John, himself, did not seem to mind or care what Mr.Daniels or anyone else said.

He wrote a letter to New York and, in the course of time, a second-hand desk, a few chairs, and half a dozen cases of law books arrived by freight and were installed in the ex-barber-shop.

The local sign-painter perpetrated a sign with "John Kendrick, Attorney-at-law" upon it in gilt letters, and the "looking out of the window" really began.
And that was about all that did begin for days and days.

Each morning or afternoon, Sundays excepted, Captain Bangs would drop in at the office and find no one there, no one but the tenant, that is.