"Think you are a jackass!" repeated the juror.
"Yes, sir!"
"Very likely I do."
Mr. Turtle submitted to the court, if that "warn't 'nough to break him from sittin'."
Mr. Bates said, "the man show'd his good sense—best juryman on the whole panel."
The court thought the juryman was entitled to his own opinion; it was not pos-i-tive proof that Turtle was a jackass 'cause the juryman might have thought so; shouldn't drive him out the box for that.
"Ever been in state-prison?" continued Turtle, resuming the examination.
"S—i—r!" ejaculated Mr. Tumbleton, moving towards Ike, with his arm raised.
"Or, in the county jail," added Ike, almost in time, and cocking his eye saucily at Mr. Tumbleton.
Mr. Tumbleton rushed upon Ike, and upset him, before Ike knew that he really was in danger.