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The last and most desperate means of defense which the serfs possessed were fire-raising and murder. With regard to the amount of fire-raising there are no trustworthy statistics. With regard to the number of agrarian murders I once obtained some interesting statistical data, but unfortunately lost them. I may say, however, that these cases were not very numerous.
At Rerrick, as in Russia, the little hand was seen by Telfer himself, and the fire-raising was endless. At Amherst too, as in a pair of recent Russian cases and others, there was plenty of fire-raising. By a lucky chance an English case occurred at Wem, in Shropshire, in November, 1883. It began at a farm called the Woods, some ten miles from Shrewsbury.
When I have accomplished this quest, I would get me home again to the little land of Upmeads, to see my father and my mother, and to guard its meadows from waste and its houses from fire-raising: to hold war aloof and walk in free fields, and see my children growing up about me, and lie at last beside my fathers in the choir of St. Laurence.
'Hush! Meg, hush! hush! that's not safe talk. 'What does she mean? said Mannering to Sampson, in an undertone. 'Fire-raising, answered the laconic Dominie. 'Who, or what is she, in the name of wonder? 'Harlot, thief, witch, and gipsy, answered Sampson again.
"But I tell you Saint Mary's is not destroyed!" said Woodcock, in increasing agitation; "some trash of painted windows there were broken things that no nobleman could have brooked in his house some stone saints were brought on their marrow-bones, like old Widdrington at Chevy-Chase; but as for fire-raising, there was not so much as a lighted lunt amongst us, save the match which the dragon had to light the burning tow withal, which he was to spit against Saint George; nay, I had caution of that."
'Hush! Meg, hush! hush! that's not safe talk. 'What does she mean? said Mannering to Sampson, in an undertone. 'Fire-raising, answered the laconic Dominie. 'Who, or what is she, in the name of wonder? 'Harlot, thief, witch, and gipsy, answered Sampson again.
"If I had the making of the laws," exclaimed Mary, flushing with indignation as she thought of her own recent risks and losses in consequence of fire-raising, "I'd have every man that set light to his house hanged!" "Ah; an' if 'e could also be draw'd and quartered," added Bob, "and 'ave the bits stuck on the weathercocks of Saint Paul's, or atop of Temple Bar, it would serve 'im right."
If the whole phenomena are caused by imposture, the actors, or actresses, display a wonderful similarity of symptoms and an alarming taste for fire-raising. Professor William James, the well-known psychologist, mentions ten cases whose resemblances "suggest a natural type," and we ask, is it a type of hysterical disease? He chooses, among others, an instance in Dr.
"Hush! Meg, hush! hush that's not safe talk." "What does she mean?" said Mannering to Sampson, in an undertone. "Fire-raising," answered the laconic Dominie. "Who, or what is she, in the name of wonder?" "Harlot, thief, witch, and gipsy." Answered Sampson again. And now some o' ye maun lay down your watch, and tell me the very minute o' the hour the wean's born, and I'll spae its fortune."
Withal it was a weight off his heart that he had escaped from the turmoil of the wars of the Burg of the Four Friths, and the men of the Dry Tree, and the Wheat-wearers, with the thralldom and stripes and fire-raising, and the hard life of strife and gain of the walled town and strong place.
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