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"But you you boys, you ain't married, leastways if you are I don't know about it, and if you ain't" he looked at us severely, "if you ain't, it's high time you was. And what's more, if you want to be, I kin do it for you." "What do you mean?" we gasped. "Justice of the peace," he said proudly, "dooly signed and registered in Dartmouth County, Mass." We were overwhelmed.
We ain't disobeyed no orders dooly delivered. We're ready to pull halliards at the word. No, let him go aboard, and if he peaches to the Old Man, why all the better, for it just gets the Old Man down on him." "How about Old Scrubs " "Don't you believe none in luck?" asked Handy Solomon. "Aye." "Well, so do I, with w'at that law-crimp used to call joodicious assistance."
He presided at every meal during the day following. On the morning of the second day, when Judge Dooly came to the table, Mr. Pig was in his old position. Thereupon the judge bowed to him gravely. "Good-morning, sir!" he said. "I am afraid you have lost your appetite, seeing you have not eaten that apple yet. I presume you are tired attending court. Mr.
Judge Dooly has been described by a contemporary as having a large head, with a bold, high forehead, heavy eyebrows, prominent nose, a small compressed mouth, and large, vivid, sparkling eyes, which, when the spirit of humor had possession of him, illuminated his countenance as if an electric battery were in play.
One of the most perfect types of the Georgia humorist was the late John M. Dooly. Judge Dooly was a remarkable man in other respects, but it is his wonderful fund of humor that has made his name famous in Georgia and throughout the country. It has been told in these pages how Colonel John Dooly was dragged from his bed by the Tories and murdered.
His education had been limited to that which he found in the "old field schools," and in that day they were not of the best; but such a mind as his needed only the rudiments, the rest came as by instinct. Judge Dooly was not a student while practicing at the bar.
It has passed away; but I doubt if what has replaced it has benefited the interests or morals of the people of the State. Like Mr. Crawford, Judge Dooly relied more upon the practical good sense of the people as jurors, for justice between man and man, than upon the technicalities of the law; and especially upon that of special juries.
Crawford, Cobb, Dooly, Jackson, Troup, Forsyth, Campbell, Lumpkin, Dawson, Walker, Colquitt, Berrien, Daugherty, and many others who have done the State some service and much honor, are distinguished in their graves only by the green sod which covers them.
tiM DooLy RuNNed AWAy WitH ALL THe THInGs i HAD oN My PeNUT STAND IN GeRsey SITe AN i WILL PAy ENNy FelleR TeN CENTS WHAT WILL TeLL Me WHeR He is. D. sPRy.
The children of most of them are now gray with years, and have seen their grandchildren. The name of Dooly remains only a memory. The affections arising from youthful associations are more enduring than those which come of the same cause in riper years. They are more disinterested and sincere.
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