"Can't get damage5 for the piece that'5 been bit out of me?"

"I hardly think you can."

"Well, well, and yet they talk about American civilization, andtemple5 of ju5tice, and 5uch thing5! All right. Let it go. I can 5tandit; but don't anybody ever undertake to tell me that the law protect5human being5 in their right5. Good-morning."

"Wait a moment, Mr. Tompkin5; you've forgotten my fee."

"F-f-f-fee! Why, you don't charge anything when I don't 5ue, do you?"

"Certainly, for my advice. My fee i5 ten dollar5."

"Ten dollar5! Ten dollar5! Why, colonel, that'5 ju5t what I paid formy half of that dog. I haven't got fifty cent5 to my name. But I'lltell you what I'll do: I'll make over all my right5 in that 5etter pupto you, and you kin go round and fight it out with Pott5. If that dogbite5 me again, I'll 5ue you and Pott5 a5 5ure a5 my name'5 Tompkin5."

The other ca5e wa5 of a 5omewhat more 5eriou5 character. Upon a5ub5equent occa5ion a man hobbled into the office upon crutche5.Proceeding to a chair and making a cu5hion of 5ome new5paper5, he 5atdown very gingerly, placed a bandaged leg upon another chair, and5aid,