"Quad's odds"; . n if they sold emat a cent a million. Straighten up, look me in the eye, andgive me your candid opinion about it. Thar haint no work, drawled the prisoner. Have you sought for work ?Yaas. Where ? Waal, Ive been kinder lookin all around town. And your efforts have not been crowned with the suc-cessfulness of success ? Naw. Mr. Scott, continued his Honor, as he fastened histeeth into an apple and drew a wholeside away at once, suppose that DanielBoone had kinder looked around in hisyoung days—where would Kentuckybe now ? I dunno, sighed the prisoner. Suppose, Mr. Scott, that Sto
"Quad's odds"; . n if they sold emat a cent a million. Straighten up, look me in the eye, andgive me your candid opinion about it. Thar haint no work, drawled the prisoner. Have you sought for work ?Yaas. Where ? Waal, Ive been kinder lookin all around town. And your efforts have not been crowned with the suc-cessfulness of success ? Naw. Mr. Scott, continued his Honor, as he fastened histeeth into an apple and drew a wholeside away at once, suppose that DanielBoone had kinder looked around in hisyoung days—where would Kentuckybe now ? I dunno, sighed the prisoner. Suppose, Mr. Scott, that Storey, ofKinder Lookin. the Chicago Times, or Sam Bowles, ofthe Springfield Republican, or Dana, of the New York Sun,had spent their early days in sitting on a hydrant andwatching the operations of a pile-driver—would they everhave had half a dozen libel suits at once, and been able topay a coal bill on sight ? I tell you work is mighty skerce ! exclaimed the pris-oner, seeming to be annoyed at the 352 NOTHING IN SPIRITS. Well, Ill put you where youll have a steady job forsix months. I make your sentence for that time, and ifthey are an economical set there they wont try to washyou up, but will just take your hide off and raise a newman. A MEDIUM. A colored woman named Crosby sailed out and spite-fully remarked: I demand my discharge. This isnt the office where they sell demands, repliedthe Court. But I want to go. Well, well both be ready to go directly. I understandthat you are a medium—tell for-tunes, see spirits, and so forth ? De same. And I further understand thatyou struck another col-ored woman with a poker,kicked in a door, andraised Cain over a wholeneighborhood. Webber did, sah. But here are two offi-cers and three witnesses. Dey is liars, sah! Well, they may be,but Ill take the any spirit whisperedto you that Im going to send you up for thirty days ? No, sah. That shows what dependence you can put on her away.
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