Oh, we were talking about that bill he has introduced in the Assembly and he got mad because I offered him fifty dollars for his opinion of it as a lawyer and not as a politician. No, of course not. You probably heard only his side of it. No, for it would ruin his reputation as a lawyer if he said it was constitutional, because every man with a thimbleful of brains knows that it isn't, and he dared not say that it was unconstitutional, for fear that he'd make you fellows around here angry with him. Oh, yes, they call him a big lawyer.
Any lawyer is a big one whose practise is worth fifty thousand dollars a year.
You don't know how much in love with you fellows I am. If I hadn't been so much in love with all of you, I would have gone away last when those fellows tackled me with clubs. No, not at all. I wanted to stay up here just because all you people are queer. They're up to all kinds of swindling schemes, and when they catch a fellow down there from the country, they rob him of every cent of money he has.