27; also, Watch vs.

Towser, Crompton and Meeson, p.

375; also, State of New Jersey vs.

Sicem Blanchard.
When I made these citations, my neighbor and his wife, who were judges and jurors in the case, looked confounded; and so I followed up the advantage I had gained with the law maxim, "Non minus ex dolo quam ex culpa quisque hac lege tenetur," which I found afterward was the wrong Latin, but it had its desired effect, so that the jury did not agree, and Carlo escaped with his life; and on the way home he went spinning round like a top, and punctuating his glee with a semicolon made by both paws on my new clothes.
Yet, notwithstanding all his predicaments and frailties, at his decease we resolved, in our trouble, that we would never own another dog.

But this, like many another resolution of our life, has been broken; and here is Nick, the Newfoundland, lying sprawled on the mat.