Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 333
e men, good and true, was speedilyimpaneled. Attorneys and tipstaves, sheriff andclerk were appointed, and in less time than ittakes to narrate it, there we were, seated on pilesof pine-brush around a roaring camp-fire, withthe snow falling fast and getting deeper everyhour, trying the celebrated… … CHRISTMAS-EVE AROUND THE CAMP-FIRE. and put an end to it. The case is—lets see;what 11 we call it ? I m not a very good hand atthe legal lingo, but 1 suppose if we call it a motionto quash a writ of ejectment, or something of thatsort, we 11 be within the lines of the law. Letme now state the case…
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