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They are at present in their fro ward boyhood, playing at the 

 mischievous games of war, and diplomacy, and stock-gambling, 

 and site-refusing ; and it is not quite agreeable for quiet honest 

 people to be living amongst them. But there would be 

 nothing gained by going back to that more infantine state of 

 society in which the Jarl Einar carved into a red eagle the 

 back of Halfdan the Long-legged. 



