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CHAPTER XL

u A MAN FOR BREAKFAST."

OW that we have got a Judge," said Sandy one day, u why not put him to work?"

There had been a pretty general feel ing against those who took part in the murder of the Indians the last winter kept alive by the miners, and Sandy, who was always boiling over on some subject, and was brimfull of energy, went and laid the case before the Judge and instituted a prosecution. Here was a sensation! The Court sent a constable to arrest a prisoner with a verbal warrant, and the man came into Court; the Howlin Wilderness, followed by half the town, gave verbal bonds for his appearance next Saturday, and the Court adjourned to that day.

Sides were taken at once. The idlers of course all taking sides with the prisoner ; the miners mostly going the other way. Sandy took it upon himself to prosecute. He could hardly have been in earnest,