facts. It offers no openin' for your game.
Comin' to Wolfville onder any conditions is ever a movement of gravity,
an onless a gent is out to chase cattle or dandle kyards or proposes to
array himse'f in the ranks of commerce by foundin' a s'loon, Wolfville
would not guarantee his footure any positive reward."

"'"Then I jest won't come a whole lot," says this law sharp. Whereupon
we engages in mootual drinks an' disperses to our destinies.'

"'What you tells this sport,' says Texas Thompson, who's listenin' to
Enright, 'echoes my sentiments exact. Anything to keep out law! It
ain't alone the jedgments for divorce which my wife grabs off over in
Laredo, but it comes to me as the frootes of a experience which has
been as wide as it has been plenty soon, that law is only another word
for trouble in egreegious forms.'

"'So I decides,' retorts Enright. 'Still, I'm proud to be endorsed by
as good a jedge of public disorder an' its preventives as Texas
Thompson. Sech approvals ever tends to stiffen a gent's play. As I
states, I reeverses this practitioner an' heads him t'other way.
Wolfville is the home of friendly confidence; the throne of yoonity an'
fraternal peace. It must not be jeopardised. We-all don't want to
incur no resks by abandonin' ourse'fs to real shore-enough law. It
would debauch us: we'd get plumb locoed an' take to racin' wild an'
cimarron up an' down the range, an' no gent could foresee results.
It's better than even money, that with the advent of a law sharp into
our midst, historians of this hamlet would begin their last chapter.
They would head her: "Wolfville's Last Days."

"'It's twenty years ago,' goes on Enright, 'while I'm that season in
Texas, that a sharp packs his blankets into Yellow City an' puts it up
he'll practice some law. No; he ain't wanted, but he never does give
no gent a chance to say so. He comes trackin' in onannounced, an' the
first we-all saveys, thar's his sign a-swingin', an' ashoorin' the
sports of Yellow City of the presence of

AARON GREEN, ESQ. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.

"'Nobody gets excited; for while we agrees to prevail on him ultimately
to shift his camp a heap, the sityooation don't call for nothin'
preecipitate. In fact, the idee of him or any other besotted person
turnin' loose that a-way in Yellow City, strikes us as loodicrous.
Thar's nothing for a law-gent to do. I've met up with a heap of camps
in my day; an' I've witnessed the work of many a vig