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such extremities, and compelled to steal turnips like 

 a hungry vagabond. The practice no doubt is a 

 mischievous one, as the farmers will tell us ; for the 

 water lodging in the holes which are pecked by the 

 birds, the roots are rotted, and the crop is seriously 

 impoverished. 



We can make allowances, however, for such 

 damage, when we consider what our own feelings 

 would be under such hungry circumstances. 



