Once Over Lightly

IN-THE-SALOON DEPT.: Every saloon has its pundit, its seer, its know-it-all. And the particular saloon in this story is no exception. Our boy wonder (or something) was holding forth on cruelty and injustice and what-is-the-world-coming-to. He was using his own experiences to underscore his text, and at last he said. "Do you know that the only licking I ever got was for telling the truth?"