CHAPTER V. 



STOUT V. THIN — AN INTERFERENCE — THE CLERK 

 SQUASHED— A LAUGH IN THE WRONG PLACE — CALL 

 NEXT CASE — THOMAS MUDDOCK — EXCITEMENT- 

 HENRY— COMING TO THE POINT— EXAMINATION — 

 PREVARICATION — ULTIMATE TRIUMPH OF RIGHT — 

 DEFEAT OF WRONG — END OF MY AUNT'S GREAT 

 POLICE CASE. 



OWEVER, the next case (though my Aunt 

 is thoroughly prepared to jump up at a 

 minute's notice, and, indeed, can hardly be 

 said to be sitting down) is that of a stout man, 

 without collars, against a thin man in high collars. 



" Nov/, Sir," says Mr. Sharpley, so suddenly that the stout 

 man looks as if he were going to have a fit, and would want 

 his neck-tie loosened, " what is it ? " 



The stout man (much to the thin man's delight) seems to 

 have some difficulty in stating his case. Whereupon the 

 Clerk, underneath the desk, and therefore out of the Magis- 

 trate's eye, attempts to help him. 



" You charge," says the Clerk, considerately, " Mr. Sniggs 



with refusing to allow " 



For one instant the Magistrate is puzzled as to the quarttr 



