The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-24

at looked badly. but it was a peri
compared to the way it smelled. 1t
smelled like the deluge at low tide.
New York when it is opening up sub
way on hot day shows great POSSIBLE
ties, but it cannot get in the little trills
and throbs of measly and antique stencil
that this homemade and fermented ink
did.
''Once | went over to try case before
poor white justice of the peace over
thirty miles away. He was plain, IN
educated man, who used his tongue in
writing and breathed heavily, like a
mush kettle, while thinking.
Opposed to me as counsel was man
who had been admitted to the bar. |
had not. He was rather pompous, and
hated to try a case before a country jus
tice, but he had TO do it. He was hot
and cross, and while he was making his
argument one of the children got an
acorn up its nose and we had to stop
and bore it out with the iron worm on
an old ramrod That made counsel
mad, and while he was making dila-
tory motion the Square picked brier
out of the palm of his hand it'll Bar
low knife and overruled it.
"Then counsel got so hot that he for
got himself and said things to the court
which ought to have remained forever
unsaid. After that the court got angry
and threatened to commit counsel for
contempt. Counsel allowed that the
court did not know enough to draw the
mittimus.
"'All right, | will show you, says the
court. and thereupon ne bit off a piece
of tobacco about the size Of prayer
book and took down a large, Fat volume
of forms for justices of the peace weigh
ing about nine pounds and smelling OF
pork gravy and childhood.
He wrote on and on till dinner time.
Then ne glared at the man he was en-
gagged in committing and ate the I'M
demonstrative corn dodger with him
meantime.
81 didn't mind the bitterness between
the court and counsel, for it was all
good for nv side. After dinner the
Square rolled up one corner of the oil
cloth tablecloth and went on with the
mittimus. All that afternoon, with
bulging ere and wet brow, while oppos-
ing counsel sat and smoked under the
cool shadow OF the cottonwood. the
broiling gentleman on the superheated
woolsack painfully wrote on
Toward twilight, as the frogs in the
hollow srnote the soft and echoless
cleaning with their metallic song, the
court closed with the final whereof fail
not at YOUR peril, and the commitment
was duly drawn.
Looking over earnestly a Il and lean
ing on The shoulder OF the court, car
still see the calm. pale face Of coun=S.
as ne looked sesrchlngiy over the stlD
wet and fragrant document.
Then firmly and def1ly uTssttIng the
biz. quart ink bottle over tie mighty
legal masterpiece. and thereby turning
Loose upon the ho-rlEed night a fra
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