You see, we have done with wiggery of all kinds; and if one of our judges were to wear such an appendage, he'd be taken for a merry-andrew, and the court would become a kind of show-boxinstead of such arrangements producing with us solemnity, they would produce nothing but laughter, and the greatest possible irregularity.

Yesyesthat may do for Englishmen very well; but, I guess, it would not go down hereno, no, Americans are a little more enlightened than to stand that kind of wiggery."