"All right, governor, all right. Since you've got yours off I don't mind taking mine--just to oblige you."
"Who are you? What's your name?"
"I'm a gamekeeper, that's what I am. And as for my name, everybody knows what my name is. It's Jim Baker, that's what my name is. Is there anybody in this room what don't know Jim Baker? Of course there ain't."
"You're drunk, sir!"
"And that I'm not. If I was drunk I shouldn't be going on like this. You ask 'em. They know Jim Baker when he's drunk. There isn't many men in this parish as could hold him; it would take three or four of some of them."
"At anyrate, you've been drinking."
"Well, and so would you have been drinking if you'd been going through what I have these last weeks."
"How dare you come to my court in this state? and use such language?"
"Language! what language? I ain't used no language. I said it's a damned lie, and so it is."
"You'll get yourself into serious trouble, my man, if you don't take care. I was saying that, having shot the deceased, the murderer proceeded to stab him through the body. Is that the statement to which you object with such ill-timed vigour?"