Experts


There was a chicken-stealing case before the court. The colored culprit

pleaded guilty and was duly sentenced. But the circumstances of the case

had provoked the curiosity of the judge, so that he questioned the darky

as to how he had managed to take those chickens and carry them off from

right under the window of the owner's house, and that with a savage dog

loose in the yard. But the thief was not minded to explain. He said:



"Hit wouldn't be of no use, jedge, to try to 'splain dis ting to

you-all. Ef you was to try it you more'n like as not would git yer hide

full o' shot an' git no chickens, nuther. Ef you want to engage in any

rascality, jedge, you better stick to de bench, whar you am familiar."



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