t_. No; we found nothing but printing-stock and some very shabby
furniture, and the office-boy, and three compositors.

_Mr. H_. Did you arrest them?

_Pot_. No; we thought it better not to do so.

_Mr. H_. Did they oppose your search?

_Pot_. No.

_Mr. H_. What did they do?

_Pot_. Well, they took grinders at me and said, "Sold!"

_Mr. H_. Meaning, doubtless, that they had had an inkling of your search
and had sold the arms?

_Pot_. So we gathered.

_J. N_. (_writing_). "They did not find the arms because they had been
sold."

_Mr. H_. Well, Constable, that will do.

_J. N_. Prisoner, do you wish to ask the Constable any questions?

_J. F_. Well, I don't know. I strongly suspect that you have made up
your mind which way the jury shall make up their minds, so it isn't much
use. However, I will ask him three questions. Constable Potlegoff, at
how many do you estimate the dense crowd at Beadon Road, when I
obstructed?

_Pot_. Upwards of a thousand.

_J. F_. H'm; a good meeting! How many were present at that meeting of
the Socialist League where we were plotting to make the Queen take in
washing?

_Pot_. Upwards of two hundred.

_J. F_. Lastly, when I told you in the public-house that we were two
millions strong, were you drunk or sober?

_Pot_. Sober.

_J. F_. H'm! It's a matter of opinion perhaps as to when a man _is_
drunk. Was I sober?

_Pot_. No; drunk.

_J. F_. H'm! So I should think. That'll do, Mr. Potlegoff; I won't
muddle your "Rent-of-Ability" any more. Good bye.

[SERGEANT STICKTOIT _called_.

_Mr. H_. Have you heard the prisoner speaking?

_St_. Yes.

_Mr. H_. Where?

_St_. At Beadon Road amongst other places: that's where I took him.

_Mr. H_. What was he doing?

_St_. Standing on a stool, speaking

_Mr. H_. Yes; speaking: to how many people?

_St_. About a thousand.

_Mr. H_. Could you get near him?

_St_. Nowhere near.

_Mr. H_. Well, can you tell me what he was saying?

_St_. Well, he said that all the rich people and all the shopkeepers
(_glancing at the Jury_) should be disemboweled and flayed alive, and
that all arrangements had been made for doing it, if only the workingmen
would combine. He then went into details as to where various detachments
were to meet in order to take the Bank of England and capture the Queen.
He also threatened to smash Mr. Justice Nupkins' "Rent-of-Ability," by
which I understood him to m