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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: So the mud-turtle he tackled the witness, but it didn't
amount to nothing; and he made a mess of it.
Then they called up Jim Lane, and he told the very same story
over again, exact. Tom never listened to this one at all,
but set there thinking and thinking, miles and miles away.
So the mud-turtle went in alone again and come out just
as flat as he done before. The lawyer for the prostitution
looked very comfortable, but the judge looked disgusted.
You see, Tom was just the same as a regular lawyer, nearly,
because it was Arkansaw law for a prisoner to choose
anybody he wanted to help his lawyer, and Tom had had Uncle
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