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The hosts of doubt an' fear were fleeing. "I refuse to tell you all that happened in the next minute or two. A witness has some rights when testifyin' against his own manhood. "I helped the woman to her feet, an' said: "'They are yours. I shall be happy enough, and, anyhow, I do not think I shall need them now. "An' so I left them as happy as human beings have any right to be.
Livin' together and didn't know which was the best shot likely! And every tin can in sight shot full of holes and testifyin' against you! Think I'm blind, hey? Even your horses give you away. Never batted an eyelash durin' that whole cannonade. They've been hearin' forty-fives pretty reg'lar, them horses have." "I notice your old black ain't much gun-shy, either," ventured Bill.
And as far as her testifyin' at all in the case, she wanted to see justice done, and to do it she went through this disagreeable experience, which was enough to kill anybody. Finally pa asked: "Where is Joe Rainey's pistol?" And she got mad and said, "I don't know where it is nobody knows." "Nobody knows," my pa asked quiet like. "Nobody that I know of," she answered. "Oh," said my pa.
So I'm caught; and if we had ever so much to do, and ever so much treasure to find, or trips to take, I'd have to put it aside for this here law and testifyin'. And if they knew how I hated it, they'd never ask me if I didn't like it, and like makin' a sensation and actin' the part of Tom Sawyer."
"How did he happen to be talking about Blackstone's Commentaries?" "He told me that Linkern found Blackstone's Commentaries in a barl." There was a titter in the court room. "Did you believe him?" "Yes, sir." "What were you doin' out there?" "Diggin' for treasure." "Oh, like Tom Sawyer?" "Yes, sir." "And so now you're testifyin' like Tom Sawyer?" "Yes, sir." "Don't you dream a good deal, my boy?"
Don't you remember when Tom was testifyin' agin him that he broke loose and jumped through the court house window and escaped, and nobody ever saw him again until Tom found his body at the door of McDougal's cave?" "Well," says I, "he might have been out on bail." "What's that?" said Mitch.
Midway in his story of how he had arrived in that part of the country, and at the point in his narrative where he described his own ambush and how he had fled to the bank, Smoke was interrupted by the indignant Shunk Wilson. "Young man, what sense is there in you testifyin' that way? You're just takin' up valuable time.
'I propose, says th' State's attorney, 'to prove be some rale experts, men who have earned their repytations be testifyin' eight ways fr'm th' jack in a dozen criminal cases, that so far fr'm bein' insane on this particklar night, this was th' on'y time that he was perfeckly sane. 'Oh, look here, Judge, says Bedalia Sassyfrass iv Th' Daily Fluff, 'this here has gone far enough.
Well, that seemed to kind of get in the case without anybody testifyin' to it, exactly. The court room seemed to breathe that idea, and on the streets it was talked. Finally Major Abbott stated his side of the case, and he put Mrs.
I didn't low ter have yer testifyin' ter no sich false notion. Hit mout injer my rep'tation fer peace and quiet." Still he later made me a proposal which I promptly rejected. "I done been studyin' right smart, an' we ain't doin' no good fer ourselves, stayin' round here," he ventured.
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