Des Arc citizen., 1866-02-28

the pay, he seemed surprised, and sed i
 had cost him two dollars and a half to have 4 the shuks hauld, and that l jestly owd him half a dollar. He was bigger than 1 was, sol sWallord my bile and sued him
 His lawyer plead q set off for hauln. He pied that the shuks was unsound that they were bard by Limitations that they dideht agree with his COW, and that he ney- ! CT got any shuks from me. He spoke about an hour, and allooded to me as a sWindler about 45 times. The bedeyild jury went cut and brought in verdik agin me for fifty cents, and four dollars for costs ofsuit. l haint saved nary shuk on my plantation since, and 1 don't intend to until i it gifts less expensive. Il look npon this as a warnin to all folks, ''ever to 90 to za,b C. bout sauhs, or any other small circum- stance.
 The next trouble I had was with feI- Ter who I hired to dig me we'll He was to dig it for twenty dollars, and I was to pay him in meat and meal and sich like The vagabond kept gittin along until he got all the pay, but hadent dug nary foot in tho grown. So I made out my akkount, and sued him as follers, to wit ''.'
 Old John Hanks to Bill Arp. Dr..
 To l We'll you dident dig ', $20.
 We'll. Hanks he hired cheap lawyer, who rard round extensively, and sed a heap of funny things at my expense, and finally dismissed my case for what he called its "ridikulum absurdum" paid those costs and went home sadder and wiser man I pulled down my little cabin, and moved it some three hundred yards higher to the spring, and I've drunkilnity little well Wa ter since I look upon this case as a warn in to all folks neger to payJ6r onytiing tW yopre got a, espcs1ia7A / t 1as fo 5c dIig'
 The next law case l had l gained it aii by myself by the force of sirkunstan7 ces. l bought mans aote.that was given for the hire of a nigger boy, Dix. Findin lie wopldent pay me, sued him before old Squire MeGinnis, beleeyin it was sich dead thing that the devil couldcnt Keep. me out of a yordik. The teller's attorney plead failure of consideration and non est fahta,2, and igats fabais, and infancy, and that the nigser's name, wascnt Dh but Ric1ard. The old squire was a powerful secesh, and hated tie yankees amazin. So. after the lawyer had got through his spoecb ard faished up his roadin from book called "Greciileaf,@ rose forward to an attitood Suetchin forth my arm, ses I, Squire MoGinnis, would ask, sur, if this is time in the history of our afflicted country when Federal law books should be admitted in a Southern patriots court? Haven't we seeded forever from thcm foul domihation Don't our flag wave over Fort Sumpter, and what sur, have we got to do wilh NortheI lawz? On the very first page of the gentleinens book I seed the aame of the city of Bosting. lis, sur, it was written in Bosting, publisl ed in Bos ting and sold in Costing, where they don't know no more about the hire of q nigger than an OK knows the man who will tan. his hide." l sed some more things that was pinted and patriotik, and closed my argument by handing the book to the squire, He put on his spektakles, and af ter looking at the book about a minct ses he,
 FMr Arp, you can have ajudgment and Ihope that from henceforth and forever, no lawyer will parsoom to come before this honorable court with pisen dokuments to prove his case. If he do this court will take it as insult and send him to jail"
 Hook upon this case as a warning to all folks who gamble in law, to hold good hand and play it we'll High jcsticc and patriotism are winnin trumps.
 After tnis l had difficulty with man by the name of Kohen, and l thought J wouldent go to law, but would arbytrate: I had bought Tom SwiIlins wheat at dol lar bushel tthe cou dent do any better, and if he could do better he was to cum back and girc ne de prgferense The skanp went off and sold the wheat to Ko- hen for dollar aud five cents, and Kohcn knowd all about this contrakt with me. Me and him like to have fit, and perhaps would if hadent been puny but we final ly left it all to Josh EilIins to arbytrate. Old Josh deliberated on the thing for three Howe and niohfs and finally brot in an