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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Let me tell you something, Minerva! All my life I've been fighting against tyranny the tyranny of the law, the tyranny of power, the tyranny of money." He drew fiercely on his stogy, which being desiccated flared like a Roman candle.
Each of us put on a rough, heavy suit of clothing, woolen army shirt and "stogy" boots included; and into the valise we crowded a few white shirts, some under-clothing and such things.
"Well, who can?" asked Tutt anxiously. "Nobody," replied his partner with gravity, biting off the end of a last year's stogy salvaged from the bottom of the letter basket. "Once a man's married his troubles not only begin but never end."
"You kin make dem lawyer men hop mighty high when you tries. Heh, heh! I reckon dey ain't got nuffin' on my Mistah Tutt!" Upstairs in his library Mr. Tutt strode up and down before the empty grate, smoking stogy after stogy, trying to collect his thoughts and devise something to say upon the morrow, but all his ideas had flown. There wasn't anything to say.
"Which one, Payson, Senior, or Payson, Junior?" "Payson, Senior," answered Mr. Tutt as he snipped off the end of a stogy with the pair of nail scissors which he always carried in his vest pocket. "In that case, it's too bad," remarked Tutt regretfully. "Why 'in that case'?" queried his partner. "Oh, the son isn't so much of a much!" replied the smaller Tutt.
"What does a bigamist look like?" meditated Mr. Tutt as he lit another stogy. "Good morning, Mr. Tutt," muttered the Honorable Peckham from behind the imitation rubber plant in his office, where he was engaged in surreptitiously consuming an apple. "Um be with you in a minute. What's on your mind?" Mr. Tutt simultaneously removed his stogy with one hand and his stovepipe with the other.
Tutt threw his stogy into the fire and fumbled for another in the long box on the library table. "Maybe it isn't," he conceded, "but I've always liked that specious anecdote attributed to Sheridan who paid his gambling debts and let his tailor wait. You remember it, of course?
"But," argued Mr. Tutt, abandoning his stogy, "isn't the making of a new law the same thing as changing an old law? And isn't changing a law essentially the same thing as breaking it?" "It isn't," replied Miss Wiggin tartly. "For the obvious and simple reason that the legislators who change the laws have the right to do so, while the man who breaks them has not."
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