Once in Jeopardy.
199
“Boys,” he observed, cheerily, “the Good Book says, 'None shall escape, no not one.' What about this here one?”
“I reckon,” drawled Uriah Coburn, sage and philosopher, and most venerable member from Injun Run, “I reckon the Good Book air right. I reckon we better flop him.”
“Flop” was an accurate idiom in McDowell, and, being translated, meant, “to throw heavily.”
To this the grand jury agreed with many and various methods of assent. So the member from Charity Fork took a new grip on his pen, thrust his tongue out of the corner of his mouth, and slowly and with great labor inscribed on the back of the indictment this legend, big with the injured dignity of the Commonwealth: “A True Bill. Abraham Collister, Foreman.”
