The Monikins

Chapter 21

BETTER AND BETTER--MORE LAW AND MORE JUSTICE--TAILS AND HEADS: THE

IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING EACH IN ITS PROPER PLACE.

Noah was incontinently transferred to the place of execution, where

I promised to meet him in time to receive his parting sigh,

curiosity inducing me first to learn the issue on the appeal. The

brigadier told me in confidence, as we went to the other hall, that

the affair was now getting to be one of great interest; that

hitherto it had been mere boy's play, but it would in future require

counsel of great reading and research to handle the arguments, and

that he flattered himself there was a good occasion likely to

present itself, for him to show what monikin reason really was.

The whole of the twelve wore tail-cases, and altogether they

presented a formidable arra