Sometimes there wasn't time to bring a prisoner all the way to a judge and jury, and people was busy, and hadn't time to wait for the wagon; so they done what was right, and there was always a tree that would carry that kind o' fruit for the sake of humanity.

It's the best way, boys." "This isn't Arizona or any other lyncher's country," said Halliday, the lawyer, making his way to the front.

"It isn't the law, and in this country it's the law that counts.

It's the Gover'ment's right to attend to that drunken dago that threw the horseshoe, and we've got to let the Gover'ment do it.

No lynching on my plate, thank you.