era Willie Howard (qv) vaudeville sketch written by  Billy K. Wells (qv). A man is in court to pay a $2 fine for  spitting on the subway, but his lawyer insists on fighting the case.  As the lawyer incurs greater and greater sentences, his defendant  keeps pleading, "Pay the two dollars!" This sketch also appeared in  _Ziegfeld Follies (1946)_ (qv) with Edward Arnold (I) (qv)  portraying the attorney.