waiting so i parted wi my public and my � for she was dead a ready my wife was and i hadn t no and off i started a pretty long walk to this country side for i could walk for a in them days ah well here we are at the back wall put down your and your basket now old boy and i ll help you you and i ll give you the bills and then you can go on talking obeyed for he was now carried away by the rare opportunity of talking to a new listener aad was only eager to go on with his story as soon as his back was turned and he was stooping over his christian with quick exchanged the n his own bag for those in s basket s had not been printed at but were a new lot which had been sent from that very day � highly had said coming from a pen that was up to that sort of thing christian had read the first of the and they were all alike he pi to hand one to and said here old boy this over the other and so when you got into this country side what did you do do why i put up at a good public and ordered the best for i d a bit of money in my pocket and i about and they said to me if it s business you re you go to lawyer and i went and says i going along he s maybe the fine man as walked mo up and down but no such thing i ll tell you what lawyer was he stands you there and holds you away from him wi a pole three yard long he at you and says nothing till you feel like a and then he threats you to set the justice on you and then he s sorry for you and hands you money and you a and tells you you re a poor man and he ll give you a bit of advice � and you d better not be wi things belonging to the law else you ll be up in a big wheel and fly to bits and i went of a cold sweat and i wished i might never come i sight o lawyer again but he says if you keep i this neighborhood behave yourself well and i ll you i were deep enough but it s no use being deep cause you can never know the law and there s times when the deepest fellow s worst frightened yes yes there now for another and so that was all all said round and holding the brush in suspense don t you be running too quick the radical thinks i i ll no more i ve got a bit of money � i ll buy a basket and be a it s a pleasant i shall live at and see the world and pick up and get a chance penny but when i d turned into the red lion and got myself warm again wi a drop o hot something into my head thinks i you ve done finely for yourself you re a rat as has broke up your house to take a journey and show yourself to a and then it into my head i d once two as turned on one another and the little un killed the big un says i to the landlady could you tell me of a lawyer says i not very big or fine but a second size � a pig like that i can says she there s one now in the bar parlor be so kind as bring us together says i and she cries out � i think i hear her now � mr johnson and what do you think at this crisis in s story the gray clouds which had been gradually opened sufficiently to let down the sudden moonlight and show his poor battered old figure and face in the attitude and with the expression of a sure of the coming effect on his his body and neck stretched a little on one side and his brush held out with an alarming intention of tapping christian s coat sleeve at the right moment christian started to a safe distance and said it s wonderful i can t tell what to think then never do you deny old nick said with solemnity i ve believed in him more ever since who was johnson why johnson was the fine man as had walked me up and down with questions and i out with it to him then and there and he speaks me civil and says come away wi me my good fellow and he told me a deal of law and he says whether you re a or no it s no good to you but only to them as have got hold o the property if you was a twenty times over it ud be good for the law s bought you out and your life s no good only to them as have hold o the property the more you live the more they ll stick in not as they want you now says he � you re no good to any body and you might howl like a dog for and the law ud take no notice on you says johnson i m doing a kind thing by you to tell you for that s the law and if you want to know the law master you ask johnson i heard em say after as he was an at s i ve never forgot it from that day to this but i saw clear enough as if the law hadn t been again me the estate ud ha been mine but folks are fools and i ve left off talk ing 