he soundness of which I belave
yer honor will be satisfied. Sir, the Constitution guarantees to my
clients freedom of conscience; the stairs and sthripes wave proudly
over a land in which religious despotism never dare show its repulsive
form; and yet these officers dare to say that a custom, which is almost
a pairt of the religion of these my clients, is a disturbance of the
public pace. Sir, the institutions of our counthry air endangered by
such perceedin's. And who was they disturbin'? Wasn't every man and
woman and child in Pacific Place of the same nationality of these my
clients? Air not their ethnological instincts runnin' in the same
channels? Was they disturbed? No! Every man and woman and child there
would have admired the devotion of these my clients, to their ancient
national thraditions and customs. There they was wan wid another doin'
their last friendly offices to their deceased friend in a fraternal
fight over his corpse. Sir, what a sublime spectacle for the human mind
to contemplate. I wondher that the officers were not thransfixed by the
solemnity and moral grandeur of the scene.

"_Judge._--Mr. O'Grady, I think that the fact of the dead having come to
life, and having been put to bed dead drunk, proves disastrous for your
argument, even admitting its soundness.

"_Mr. O'Grady._--Thrue it is, yer honor, that the wake was perceedin'
without the corpse, as thradition has it, that wonst upon a time Hamlet
was played widout the Prince of Denmark; but, yer honor, it was the
fault of the corpse, and not of that assembly of mourners. If Timothy
Garretty had chosen to have remained a dacintly-behaved corpse, thin the
objection which yer honor has raised could not have weighed against me
clients here, and I press it now upon yer honor should my clients here
be held accountable for the shortcomings of the corpse? I think not,
sir.

"_Judge._--I think, Mr. O'Grady, you may dispense with further argument,
as it would be superfluous. Mrs. Hennesy's house and its inmates have
never been complained of before that I am aware of, and in consideration
of this fact I'll discharge the prisoners, giving them warning, however,
in the future that if they are any of them brought before me again, I
shall not deal with them so leniently. You may go.

"The interesting party left the court.

"The business of the court having been quite extended, the Judge cast
eyes upon the clock, observing that the hour was already advanc