en to argyments a
gent is when once he's lost his weepons. Now if he isn't disarmed that
time, my eloquence wouldn't have had no more effect on old Glegg than
throwin' water on a drowned rat.'"

CHAPTER XVII.

The Clients of Aaron Green.

"And so there were no lawyers in Wolfville?" I said. The Old Cattleman
filled his everlasting pipe, lighted it, and puffed experimentally.
There was a handful of wordless moments devoted to pipe. Then, as one
satisfied of a smoky success, he turned attention to me and my remark.

"Lawyers in Wolfville?" he repeated. "Not in my day; none whatever!
It's mighty likely though that some of 'em's done come knockin' along
by now. Them jurists is a heap persistent, not to say diffoosive, an'
soon or late they shore trails into every camp. Which we'd have had
'em among us long ago, but nacherally, an' as far as argyments goes, we
turns 'em off. Se'f-preservation is a law of nacher, an' these maxims
applies to commoonities as much as ever they does to gents personal.
Wherefore, whenever we notices a law wolf scoutin' about an' tryin' to
get the wind on us, we employs our talents for lyin', fills him up with
fallacies, an' teaches him that to come to Wolfville is to put down his
destinies on a dead kyard; an' he tharupon abandons whatever of plans
he's harbourin' ag'in us, seein' nothin' tharin.

"It's jest before I leaves for the East when one of these coyotes
crosses up with Old Man Enright in Tucson, an' submits the idee of his
professional invasion of our camp.

"'Which I'm in the Oriental at the time,' says Enright, when he relates
about his adventure, 'an' this maverick goes to jumpin' sideways at me
in a friendly mood. Bein' I'm a easy-mannered sport with strangers, he
has no trouble gettin' acquainted. At last he allows that he aims to
pitch his teepee in Wolfville, hang out a shingle, an' plunge into
joorisprudence. "I was thinkin'," says he, "of openin' a joint for the
practice of law. As a condition prior advised by the barkeep, an' one
which also recommends itse'f to me as dictated of the commonest
proodence, I figgers on gainin' your views of these steps."

"'"You does well," I replies, "to consult me on them p'ints. I sees
you're shore a jo-darter of a lawyer; for you handles the language like
a muleskinner does a blacksnake whip. But jest the same, don't for one
moment think of breakin' in on Wolfville. That outfit don't practice
law none; she practices