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 punished, and if he is innocent he hadn't ort to be punished, and if you ever take the part of the guilty against the innocent, if you git up under God's pure daylight and try to prove that the innocent is guilty, try and prove a lie, your Ma will not live long to see it go on," sez I, "for mortification would set in powerful and so deep that it will soon end her days."

Thomas Jefferson hearn to me, he wuz a honest boy by nature, and my teachin's have struck in deep. He is a honest lawyer, and as I say folks come milds and milds jest to look at him. As it has turned out he is a success outside as well as inside.

And Miss Green Smythe wants him to take her case dretfully. Good land! she's been in the law for years, her children have turned out real bad, and she's turned out sort o' curous herself. She is a great society woman, and has enormous success in that direction; why, she has been, so I have been told and believe, to nineteen parties in one night, she gives immense receptions, and has got diamonds as big as eggs almost (bird's eggs, I cannot lie, I do not mean hen's eggs). Yes, she has had great success in that way, but she has had dretful poor luck with her children.

She has got a husband somewhere, I spoze. I believe that I hearn once of somebody who had seen Mr. Green Smythe one day settin' on the back doorstep of her city house. But she always has two or three young men danglin' round, and she never sez a word about her husband. Somebody said to me one day that it seemed kinder queer that nobody ever see Mr. Smythe, but I sez:

"Oh, she most probable knew where he wuz; she most probable knew that he wuz settin' out there at the back door."