THE LAW AT HEART'S DESIRE _Continuing the Story of the Pig from Kansas, and the Deep Damnation of his Taking Off_ "Order! order! gentlemen!" called Blackman, Justice of the Peace, clearing his throat.

"This honorable justice court is now in session.
Gentlemen, what is your pleasure ?" He was a little confused, but he meant well.

It seemed incumbent upon the prosecutor to make some sort of a statement, but the attorney for the defence interposed.

He moved for the discharge of the prisoner on the ground that there was no Territorial law and no city ordinance violated; he pointed out that Heart's Desire was not a city, neither a town, but had never been organized, established, or begun, even to the extent of the filing of a town site plat; he therefore denied the existence of any municipal law, since there had never been any municipality; he intimated that the pig had perhaps been killed accidentally, or perhaps in self-defence; it was plain that the prisoner was wrongfully restrained of his liberty, etc.
The ire of Blackman, J.P., at all this was something to behold.

He to be deprived of his opportunity thus lightly?
Hardly! He overruled the objections at once, and rapped loudly for order.
"The trile will go on," said he.
"Then, your Honor," cried Dan Andersen, springing to his feet, "then I shall resort to the ancient bulwark of our personal liberties.