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insist on the laws and the rio-ht that the hiw "ives 

 liim, restrain all evil-doers from infractions. Thus 

 showing to the poorer classes that it is the unmistak- 

 able side on which their bread is buttered to serve 

 and to please the man in power, whose hand and heart 

 alike incline him to justice, charity, and good will. 



On the well-arranged and sensibly-ordered manor, 

 there really is little ill-will and no difficulty. In 

 the first instance, authority, of course, must be 

 manifested and strictly enforced, and the incor- 

 rigible ruffians brought to their senses — made to 

 see that they must either obey the laws, abstain 

 from theft, or suffer the punishment awarded to 

 crime of every description. 



These incorrigible dwellers in a village will, 

 when they find they can no longer revel in bad 

 beer, bought by the proceeds of worse crime, 

 remove themselves from the locality, and go to 

 sites where there is less^ restriction, or to the 

 purlieus of a royal forest, which really is the 

 recejDtacle for ruffians sped away from places 

 they have made too hot to hold them. In a 

 royal forest in England there are always inefficient 

 keepers or woodmen, and every noble lord and 

 gentleman, during the time that he may have been 



