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"Why, it is Soplica," interrupted Bucket; "and now he even wants

to snatch the remnants from the hands of the heir; he is a

scoundrel."

"O, he is a tyrant!" squealed Razor.

"Then sprinkle him!" added Baptist.

"If he is a traitor," said Buchmann, "to the gallows with him!"

"Hurrah!" they all cried, "down with Soplica!"

But the Prussian ventured to undertake the defence of the Judge,

and cried with arms held up towards the gentry:-