Doc's jes a leetle too inclined, some thinks, to overlook
The criminal and vicious kind we'd ort to bring to book
And punish, 'thout no extry show o' sympathizin', where
They hain't showed none fer us, you know. But he takes issue there:
LXXIV
Doc argies 'at "The Red-eyed Law," as he says, "ort to learn
To lay a mighty leenient paw on deeds o' sich concern
As only the Good Bein' knows the wherefore of, and spreads
His hands above accused and sows His mercies on their heads."
LXXV
Doc even holds 'at murder hain't no crime we got a right
To hang a man fer—claims it's taint o' lunacy, er quite.—
"Hold sich a man responsibul fer murder," Doc says,—"then,
When he's hung, where's the rope to pull them sound-mind jurymen?
LXXVI
"It's in a nutshell—all kin see," says Doc,—"it's cle'r the Law's
As ap' to err as you er me, and kill without a cause:
The man most innocent o' sin I've saw, er 'spect to see,
Wuz servin' a life-sentence in the penitentchury."
