things made of cloth into this world, and I take meat out of this
world."

"Where do you have your house?"

"Here in New Austin, over my house of business, on Coronado Street."

"What people do you see in this place that you have made business with?"

Ppmegll Kkuvtmmecc Cicici pointed a three-fingered hand at the Bonney
brothers.

"What business did you make with them?"

"I gave them for money a machine which goes on the ground and goes in
the air very fast, to take persons and things about."

"Is that the thing you gave them for money?" I asked, pointing at the
exhibit air-car.

"Yes, but it was new then. It has been made broken by things from guns
now."

"What money did they give you for the machine?"

"One hundred pesos."

That started another uproar. There wasn't a soul in that courtroom who
didn't know that five thousand pesos would have been a give-away bargain
price for that car.

"Mr. Ambassador," one of the associate judges interrupted. "I used to be
in the used-car business. Am I expected to believe that this ... this
being ... sold that air-car for a hundred pesos?"

"Here's a notarized copy of the bill of sale, from the office of the
Vehicles Registration Bureau," I said. "I introduce it as evidence."

There was a disturbance at the back of the room, and then the z'Srauff
Ambassador, Gglafrr Ddespttann Vuvuvu, came stalking down the aisle,
followed by a couple of Rangers and two of his attaches. He came forward
and addressed the court.

"May you be happy, sir, but I am in here so quickly not because I have
desire to make noise, but because it is only short time since it got in
my knowledge that one of my persons is in this place. I am here to be of
help to him that he not get in trouble, and to be of help to you. The
name for what I am to do in this place is not part of my knowledge.
Please say it for me."

"You are a friend of the court," Judge Nelson told him. "An _amicus
curiae_."

"You make me happy. Please go on; I have no desire to put stop to what
you do in this place."

"From what person did you get this machine that you gave to these
persons for one hundred pesos?" I asked.

Gglafrr immediately began barking and snarling and yelping at my
witness. The drygoods importer looked startled, and Judge Nelson banged
with his gavel.

"That's enough of that! There'll be nothing spoken in this court but
English, except through an interpreter!"

"Yow! I am sad that what I did was