So saith the law." The others coincided.
"Well, all right, let it go, since you vote me down.

But there's one thing which certainly isn't fair.

The magistrate fixes a mechanic's wage at one cent a day, for instance.

The law says that if any master shall venture, even under utmost press of business, to pay anything _over_ that cent a day, even for a single day, he shall be both fined and pilloried for it; and whoever knows he did it and doesn't inform, they also shall be fined and pilloried.

Now it seems to me unfair, Dowley, and a deadly peril to all of us, that because you thoughtlessly confessed, a while ago, that within a week you have paid a cent and fifteen mil--" Oh, I tell _you_ it was a smasher! You ought to have seen them to go to pieces, the whole gang.