  A drowning boy--

Peace!  Sheriff, name the day the deed was done!

At ten in the morning, or some minutes later, the first day of the New
Year, most illustrious--

Let the prisoner go free--it is the Kings will!

Another blush followed this unregal outburst, and he covered his
indecorum as well as he could by adding--

It enrageth me that a man should be hanged upon such idle, hare-brained
evidence!

A low buzz of admiration swept through the assemblage.