“I haven’t said it was the squire’s land. But suppose it _was_? And suppose it had been a large sum,” queried Jack, “could he claim it? What’s the law?” And, to explain away his extraordinary interest in the legal point, he added, laughingly, “Just for the fun of it, I’d like to know what he _could_ do if he _should_ try Phin’s joke, and set out to get my half-dollar away!”