For the love of Annibel

I knowed it! I knowed it jist as well as though it had been yelled from th’ house-tops. Any time I hears uh noise like that I’m wise to th’ fact that joy has departed from life.

“My boy!” yells th’ judge, grabbin’ fer Slim’s hand and gittin’ th’ hammer instead. “I’d die happy if such things could be. It would pay off th’ mortgage on Sunnybrook and make...