The Harrier 



JOT up to much," and "a bad 

 lot," are in human parlance, 

 the positive and comparative, 

 whilst ''a bad egg" is the 

 superlative of condemnation. 

 ''The bad egg" will commit actions so 

 very low and dreadful that it has not 

 been thought necessary to forbid them. 

 Murder of babes by babes and desertion of 

 tender youth by their parents are crimes 

 too monstrous to anticipate. 



The Harrier is a "bad egg," a poor 

 low coward, a terror only to deformed 

 creatures and w^eaklings, fit to glean roast 

 lizards after a fern fire, to tear out the 

 eyes from cast sheep, and mean enough to 

 gorge himself with carrion from the yards. 

 I accuse him of fratricide even in the 

 nest, and worst of all, the lowest form of 

 cowardice, a craven fear that will inexcus- 



