_J. N_. (_writing_). This capital. Well, well, well! I cannot guess why the prisoner should be so infuriated against this metropolis. Go on, Mr. Hungary. _Mr. H_. (_to witness_). Can you remember any other words he said? _Pot_. Yes; later on he said, "I hope to see the last Londoner hung in the guts of the last member of Parliament." _J. N_. Londoner, eh? _Pot_. Yes, my lord; that is, he meant Londoner. _J. N_. You mustn't say what he meant, you must say what you heard him say. _Pot_. Capital, my lord. _J. N_. I see; (_writing_). The last dweller in the metropolis. _Pot_. Capital, my lord. _J. N_. Yes, exactly; that's just what I've written--this metropolis. _Pot_. He said capital, my lord. _Mr. H_. Capital, the witness says, my lord. _J. N_. Well, doesn't that mean the same thing? I tell you I've got it down accurately. _J. F_. (_who has been looking from one to the other with an amused_ _smile, now says as if he were thinking aloud_:) Well, I _am_ damned! what a set of fools! _J. N_. What is that you said, sir? Have you no sense of decency, sir? Are you pleading, or are you not pleading? I have a great mind to have you removed. _J. F_. (_laughing_). Oh, by all means remove me! I didn't ask to be here. Only look here, I could set you right in three minutes if you only let me. _J. N_. Do you want to ask the witness anything? If not, sir, hold your tongue, sir. No, sir; don't speak, sir. I can see that you are meditating bullying me; let me advise you, sir, not to try it. _Mr. H_. (_to_ POT.) Was that the only occasion on which you heard him speaking? _Pot_. No; I have heard him speaking in Hyde Park and saying much the same thing, and calling Mr. Justice Nupkins a damned old fool! _J. N_. (_writing_). "A damned old fool!" Anything else? _Pot_. A blasted old cheat! _J. N_. (_writing_). "A blasted old cheat!" (_Cheerfully_) Go on. _Pot_. Another time he was talking in a public-house with two men whom I understood to be members of the Fabian League. He was having words with them, and one of them said, "Ah, but you forget the rent of ability"; and he said, "Damn the rent of ability, I will smash their rents of abilities." _Mr. H_. Did you know what that meant? _Pot_. No; not then. _Mr. H_. But you do now? _Pot_. Yes; for I got into conversation with one of them, who told me that it meant the brain, the skull. _J. N_. (_writing_). "The rent of ability is a cant phrase in use among these people signifying the head." _Mr. H_. Well? _Pot_. Well, then they laughed and said, Well, as far as he is concerned, smash it when you can catch it. _Mr. H_. Did you gather whose head it was that they were speaking of? _Pot_. Yes; his lordship's. _Mr. H_. (_impressively and plaintively_). And _why_? _Pot_. Because they said he had jugged their comrades like a damned old smoutch! _J. N_. _Jugged_? _Pot_. Put them in prison, my lord.