“Now, sir,” replied Sam.

“I believe you are in the service of Mr. Pickwick, the defendant in this case? Speak up, if you please, Mr. Weller.”

“I mean to speak up, Sir,” replied Sam; “I am in the service o’ that ’ere gen’l’man, and a wery good service it is.”

“Little to do, and plenty to get, I suppose?” said Serjeant Buzfuz, with jocularity.

“Oh, quite enough to get, Sir, as the soldier said ven they ordered him three hundred and fifty lashes,” replied Sam.

“You must not tell us what the soldier, or any other man, said, Sir,” interposed the judge; “it’s not evidence.”