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would be client, without charL'o, some general advice 

 about going on board of bis boat, shoving off for New 

 Orleans, and, abandoning the suit altogether. 



The flatboatman stared with profound astonishment, 

 and asked the lawyer " If he was a sure enough 'Squire." 



Receiving an affirmative reply, he pressed every ar- 

 gument he could use, to have him undertake his case and 

 get him "jestess;-' but when he found tluit liis efforts 

 were unavailing, he quietly seated himself for the first 

 time, put his hat aside, — crossed his legs, — then looking 

 up to the ceiling with the expression of great patience, 

 he requested the " 'Squire, to read to him the Louisiana 

 laws on cock-fighting.'' 



The lawyer said that he did not know of a single 

 statute in the State upon the subject. The boatman 

 started up as if he had been shot, exclaiming — 



**No laws in the State on cock-fighting? No, no, 

 'Squire, you can't possum me ; give us the law." 



The refusal again followed ; the astonishment of the 

 boatman increased, and throwing himself in a comico- 

 heroic attitude, he waved his long fingers around the 

 sides of the room and asked, 



" What all them thar books were about ? " 



" All about the law." 



" Well then, 'Squire, am I to understand that not 

 one of them thar books contain a single law on cock- 

 fighting ? " 



'• You are." 



