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It was dishonest to the occupier himself, because it put in his way the worst temptation to unthriftiness.
Myles: "Indeed your Honour may safely say so : Iwas ploughing away […] when I bethought how I forgot to tell little Jem, when he'd be buying my pen'orth of snuff, to be sure to get it in two separate ha'porths, the way he'd have the two tillies. So what could Ido but run home, to […] go myself for the snuff, and be sure to get my tillies.
Q. The black people were permitted to go home, if they would go quietly? A. Yes, sir; there was no disarmament; no attempt to disarm them. Q. And the white people agreed to go home quietly? A. Yes; I think there was an express stipulation made, that those who had violated the law should be prosecuted — to let the courts take their course.
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