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 owner an article not his own, it ought to come to a civil action and a judgment secured.

  Not so Ascyltos, who was afraid of the law, and demurred, “Who knows us here? Who will place any credence in anything we say? It seems to me that it would be better to buy, ours though it is, and we know it, and recover the treasure at small cost, rather than to engage in a doubtful lawsuit.”

But, with the exception of a two-as piece with which we had intended purchasing peas and lupines, there was nothing to hand; so, Rh