Land and Sea 



the man to the police-station. The case was 

 quite clear : sections of the stalks left on the 

 trees were produced in Court and shown to fit 

 the bunches which the man was removing ; but 

 the judge dismissed it. 1 was told afterwards, 

 I know not with what truth, that the prisoner 

 was a very poor man, that he could not pay a 

 fine, or for his keep in prison ; and that if I 

 had offered to pay for his board the Court 

 would have been willing to lodge him there 

 for a week or two. This seems to add fresh 

 burdens to the lot of the prosecutor, which 

 even with us is often a troublesome one ; and 

 probably accounts for the small number of 

 prosecutions. 



If there is one advantage of education more 

 obvious than another (some of us are too 

 apt nowadays in England to note only its dis- 

 advantages), it is that it delivers from terror. 



** Your nature's needs are twain, 

 And only twain : and these are to be free — 

 Your minds from terror, and your bones from pain." * 



We hardly realize perhaps how deeply we are 

 indebted on both counts to the achievements 



* W. H. Mallock, " Lucretius on Life and Death." 



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