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My mother used to be mighty 'shamed when she heard we were called the 'Fighting Fitches. That was befo' the war, and one or the other of us boys was always up befo' the co't for wild carrying on. But, bless Bob, when we were called 'Fighting Fitches' for whipping the Yankees the old lady was as pleased as Punch."
I believe it said in the novel that the young man died young and went to heaven the only one of his kind. P'raps I'm wrong and he didn't die went to heaven jest as he stood in his shoes and co't and pants." Parker merely scowled back at the biting irony of this rejoinder. "There's no dime novel or any other kind of a novel to this affair, Colonel Ward.
"'Thar bein' no objections, says Tutt, 'it is regyarded as the sense of the meetin' that this yere visitin' sharp from the States, yeretofore clogged in his flight by the name of Archibald Willingham De Graffenreid Butt, be yereafter known as "Butcherknife Bill"; or failin' leesure for the full name, as "Butch," or both at the discretion of the co't, with the drinks on Butch as the gent now profitin' by this play.
He struck at me with his buggy whip." "What you got to say to this, Mr. Blount?" asked the squire. "I say I showed him the order like I said," answered Blount doggedly. Squire Balaam removed his spectacles and leaned back in his chair. "It's the opinion of this here co't that the whole question of assault rests on whether Bob Yancy saw the order.
Dey wuz knocked out to ole marster dough, an' den dey hed a big lawsuit, an' ole marster wuz agwine to co't, off an' on, fur some years, till at lars' de co't decided dat M'ria belonged to ole marster. Ole Cun'l Chahmb'lin den wuz so mad he sued ole marster for a little strip o' lan' down dyah on de line fence, whar he said belonged to 'im. Ev'ybody knowed hit belonged to ole marster.
It's co't day at War-whoop Crossin', an' the Jedge an' every law-sharp on that circuit comes trailin' into camp.
"'Deed, it is, Mars Henry, 'deed it is!" exclaimed Peter, fervently. "Peter has not been able," replied the magistrate, "to show this co't that he has reg'lar employment, or means of suppo't, and he was therefore tried and convicted yesterday evenin' of vagrancy, under our State law. The fine is intended to discourage laziness and to promote industry. Do you want to bid, suh?
This co't is mo' than willin' and full of joy to see the clouds of discord and misunderstandin' rollin' away from two lovin' hearts, but it air the duty of the co't to p'eserve the morals and integrity of the State. The co't reminds you that you air no longer man and wife, but air divo'ced by regular decree, and as such air not entitled to the benefits and 'purtenances of the mattermonal estate."
Celia's violet eyes grew dark with wrath: "And Colonel Arran went into co't with his lawyers and his witnesses and had the divorce set aside and publicly made this silly child her lover's mistress, and their child nameless! That was the justice that the law rendered Colonel Arran. And now you know why I hate him and shall always hate and despise him."
They're holdin' co't at the time; the same bein' the first jestice, legal, which is dealt out in Lido. "'An' do you all know, puts in Dan Boggs, who's listenin' to Tutt, 'I'm mighty distrustful of co'ts. You go to holdin' of 'em, an' it looks like everybody gets wrought up to frenzy ontil life where them forums is held ain't safe for a second.
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