“Well,” says Magpie. “you might as well take your goat, Mighty.”
“Not me!” yells Mighty. “I’m off that goat forever.”
“Well, it’s sort of a deadlock,” says I. “Ajax is arrested in name only and the owner of the stolen property refuses to take it back.”
Just then Judge Steele rides in from the mine. We explains things to him, and he looks wise.
“Clean case against him, judge,” states Scenery. “He’s got the goods on him.”
“Think I can’t smell?” snorts the judge. “This is an open-air case.”
He pounds on his saddle-horn.
“Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye! This honorable court is doing business. The prisoner will stay where he is. Are you guilty or not guilty?”
“I have no idea,” says Ajax weary-like.
“Prisoner, does that goat belong to Mighty Jones?”