But all this had "been seen to." Such things are never
unforeseen.
FOR INSTANCE:
"Here is a package of worm-medicine which, for one dollar will save the
life of your child. Will you have it? No!! you will not pay one single
dollar to save the life of your little child! Here is a man, who, for
one standard dollar, in silver, worth intrinsically less than 90 cents,
will let his child be lowered into the grave--will listen to the clods
falling on its little coffin! But ah! I am provided against such men!
They cannot escape me! Here is a smaller package which will save your
child's life for fifty cents. It is yours. Death has missed his mark!"
Now, with the inevitable forethought of
THIS VERMIFUGE FIEND
whom I have quoted, the law-makers of those days also saw to it that the
laborer should not escape the original terms of Eve's surrender to "that
first grand thief who clomb into God's fold." Under a statute of Richard
II. the laborer was forbidden to remove from one part of the kingdom to
another, or to otherwise seek to raise the price of his labor. This law
stood for centuries, and was reiterated in the seventeenth George II.
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