"Well, then, I shall call him as amicus curiae;
and the defendant's counsel can cross-examine
him."

Fullalove went into the box, was sworn, identified
the pocket-book, and swore he had seen
fourteen thousand pounds in it on two occasions.
With very little prompting, he told the sea-fight.,
and the Indian darkie's attempt to steal the
money, and pointed out Vespasian as the rival
darkie who had baffled the attempt. Then
he told the shipwreck to an audience now
breathless—and imagine the astonished interest
with which Julia and Edward listened to this
stranger telling them the new strange story of
their own father!—and lastly, the attempt of
the two French wreckers and assassins, and how
it had been baffled. And so the mythical cash
was tracked to Boulogne.

The judge then put this question: "Did
Captain Dodd tell you what he intended to do
with it?"

Fullalove (reverently).—I think, my lord, he
said he was going to give it to his wife.
(Sharply.) Well, what is it, old hoss? What
are you making mugs at me for? don't you
know it's clean against law to telegraph a
citizen in the witness-box?

The Judge.—This won't do; this won't do.

The Crier.—Si-lence in the court.

"Do you hyar now what his lordship says?"
said Fullalove, with ready tact. "If you know
anything more, come up hyar and swear it like an
enlightened citizen; do you think I'm going to
swear for tew." With this Vespasian and Fullalove
proceeded to change places amidst roars of
laughter at the cool off-hand way this pair
arranged forensicalities; but Serjeant Saunders
requested Fullalove to stay where he was.
"Pray sir," said he slowly, "who retained you
for a witness in this cause?"

Fullalove looked puzzled.

"Of course somebody asked you to drop in
here, so very accidentally: come now, who was
it?"

"I'm God Amighty's witness dropped from the
clouds, I cal'late."

"Come, sir, no prevarication. How came you
here just at the nick of time?"

"Counsellor, when I'm treated polite I'm ile,
but rile me and I'm thunder stuffed with pison:
don't you raise my dander, and I'll tell you. I
have undertaken to educate this yar darkie"—
here he stretched out a long arm, and laid his
hand on Vespasian's woolly pate—"and I'm
bound to raise him to the Eu-ropean model.
(Laughter.) So I said to him, coming over
Westminster Bridge, Now there's a store hyar
where they sell a very extraordinary Fixin; and
its called Justice: they sell it tarnation dear;
but prime. So I make tracks for the very court
where I got the prime article three years ago,
against a varmint that was breaking the seventh
and eighth commandments over me, adulterating
my patent and then stealing it. Blast him!
(A roar of laughter.) And coming along I said
this old country's got some good pints after all,
old hoss. One is they'll sell you justice dear, but
prime, in these yar courts, if you were born at
Kamschatkee; and the other is, hyar darkies are
free as air, disenthralled by the univarsal genius
of British liberty; and then I pitched Counsellor
Curran's bunkum into this darkie, and he sucked
it in like mother's milk, and in we came on tip-
toe, and the first thing we heard was a freeborn
Briton treated wus than ever a nigger in Old
Kentuck, decoyed away from his gal, shoved into
a darned madhouse—the darbies clapped on
him——"

"We don't want your comments on the case,
sir."

"No, nor any other free and enlightened
citizen's, I reckon. Wal, Vespasian and me sat
like mice in a snowdrift, and hid our feelings out
of good manners, being strangers, till his lordship
got e-tarnally fixed about the captain's pocket-
book. Vesp says I, this hurts my feelings
powerful. Says I, this hyar lord did the right
thing about my patent, he summed up just: and
now he is in an everlasting fix himself; one good
turn deserves another, I'll get him out of this
fix, any way." Here the witness was interrupted
with a roar of laughter that shook the court.
Even the judge leaned back and chuckled,
genially, though quietly. And right sorrowful was
every Briton there when Saunders closed abruptly
the cross-examination of Joshua Fullalove.

His lordship then said he wished to ask
Vespasian a question.

Saunders lost patience. " What, another
amicus curiae, my lud! This is unprecedented."

"Excuse my curiosity, Brother Saunders,"
said the judge, ironically. " I wish to trace this
£14,000 as far as possible. Have you any
particular objection to the truth on this head of
evidence?"

"No, my lud, I never urge objections when I
can't enforce them."

"Then you are a wise man. (To Vespasian
after he had been sworn.) Pray did Captain
Dodd tell you what he intended to do with this
money?"

"Is, massa judge, massa captan told dis child
he got a branker in some place in de ole country,
called Barkinton. And he said dis branker bery
good branker, much sartainer not to break dan
the brank of England. (A howl.) De captan
said he take de money to dis yer branker, and
den hab no more trouble wid it. Den it off my
stomach, de captan say, and dis child heerd
him. Yah!"

The plaintiff's case being apparently concluded,
the judge went to luncheon.

In the buzz that followed, a note was handed
to Mr. Compton: " Skinner! On a hot scent.
Sure to find him to-day.—N.B. He is wanted
by another party. There is something curious
afoot!"

Compton wrote on a slip, " For Heaven's sake