was worth,

Or if breeders split in squabbling over weight or

age or girth;

If a stubborn line-fence quarrel, right-of-way dis-

pute, or deed,

Claim of heirship or of debtor, honest error,

biassed greed,

Rose to foster litigation, no one scurried to the law,

No one belched out objurgations, sputtered oaths,

or threatened war,