A QUESTION OF LAW.

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* Well, I try to be. It is all a person can do in a world like this/

And now, my burden being shifted to other shoulders, my terrors
soon faded away.

The day before we left Hannibal, a curions thing fell under my
notice—the surprising spread which longitudinal time undergoes
there. I learned it from one of the most unostentatious of men—the
coloured coachman of a friend of mine, who lives three miles from
town. He was to call for me at the Park Hotel at 7.30 P.M., and
drive me out. But he missed it considerably—did not arrive till ten.
He excused himself by saying—

f De time is mos1 an hour en a half slower in de country en what
it is in de town \ you'll be in plenty time, boss. Sometimes we shoves
out early for church, Sunday, en fetches up dah right plum in de
middle er de sermon. Diffunce in de time, A body can't make no
calculations 'bout it.'

I had lost two hours and a half; but I had learned a fact worth
four.

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