human
Reckon he'll cut a blue streak for home now, muttered a court-lounger, buttoning up his coat;
gpt
Been me, I'd soaked him, blurted out a corner-loafer.
human
If you can't convict one of these clay-eaters when you've got him dead to rights, ain't no use havin' no justice.
gpt
I thought Tom [the buzzard] would land him, said a stout, gray-whiskered lawyer who was gathering up his papers.
human
First case Tom's lost this week. Goes pretty hard with him, you know, when he loses a case.
gpt
It would have been an outrage, sir, if he had won it, broke in a stranger.
human
The arrest of an old man like that on such a charge, and his confinement for nearly a year in a hole like that one across the street, is a disgrace. Something is rotten in the way the laws are administered in the mountains of Kentucky, or outrages like this couldn't occur.
gpt
He wouldn't thank you, sir, for interfering, remarked a bystander.
human
Being shut up isn't to him what it is to you and me. He's been taken care of for a year, hasn't he? Warmed and fed, and got his three meals a day. That's a blamed sight more than he gets at home. They're only half-human, these mountaineers, anyway. Don't worry; he's all right.
gpt
You've struck it first time, retorted the Deputy Marshal who had smelled the whiskey, found the dime, and slipped the handcuffs on the old man's withered wrists.
human
Go slow, will you? and he faced the stranger.
gpt
We got to do our duty, ain't we? That's the law, and there ain't no way gittin' round it. And if we make mistakes, what of it? We've got to make mistakes sometimes, or we wouldn't catch half of 'em. The old skeesiks ought to be glad to git free. See?