Now, one person can jist as
well make a plain statement as another. I know, of my own score, there's
not one of my neighbors for ten miles round, that can't tell all about
the rotten prints he put off upon my old woman; and I know myself of all
the tricks he's played at odd times, more than a dozen, upon 'Squire
Nichols there, and Tom Wescott, and Bob Snipes, and twenty others; and
everybody knows them just as well as I. Now, to make up the score, and
square off with the pedler, without any frustration, I move you that
Lawyer Pippin take the chair, and judge in this matter; for the day has
come for settling off accounts, and I don't see why we shouldn't be the
regulators for Bunce, seeing that everybody agrees that he's a rogue,
and a pestilence, and desarves regilation."
This speech was highly applauded, and chimed in admirably with all
prejudices, and the voice that called Lawyer Pippin to preside over the
deliberations of the assembly was unanimous. The gentleman thus highly
distinguished, was a dapper and rather portly little personage, with
sharp twinkling eyes, a ruby and remarkable nose, a double chin,
retreating forehead, and corpulent cheek.
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