CHAPTER XV 



JAYS AND CROWS 



By common consent the birds whose names 

 stand at the head of this chapter are members of 

 a most disreputable family and are sure enough 

 undesirables and should be deported to that ex- 

 cessively hot and waterless region from whence 

 they came. It's as clear as mud that black and 

 blue are the colors of assault and battery and as- 

 sault and battery is a flourish, common way down 

 in the dregs of society, where laborers fight and 

 drunken brutes whip their wives and eyes are deco- 

 rated with the colors of the Jay and the Crow. 

 Not everything can be allowed in the best so- 

 ciety and, it will scarcely permit the bare mention 

 of anything so coarse and common and Bolshevist 

 as blue marauders and black robbers. Believing 

 every one innocent until proved guilty is reversed 

 in the case of the prisoners at the bar, who are re- 

 quired to prove their innocence after being ar- 

 rested on suspicion and tried before prejudiced 

 juries. As their attorney, though without a re- 

 tainer, I shall stand upon the rights of my clients 



