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It is impossible to imagine that this should have such an effect as it had; for the fowls not only never came to the corn, but, in short, they forsook all that part of the island, and I could never see a bird near the place as long as my scare-crows hung there.
The present plan in dealing, say, with a young man of twenty, is to surround him with scare-crows and prohibitions to try to convince him logically that passion is dangerous. This is both supererogation and imbecility supererogation because he already knows that it is dangerous, and imbecility because it is quite impossible to kill a passion by arguing against it.
Think it'll be like mendin' a brush-fence makin' bad worse. Where on earth did you gather up sich a gang o' scare-crows? I wouldn't waste my days and nights pickin' up sich runts as them. When I go manhuntin' I'll gether something that's worth while." Every bright sally of Maria was punctuated with shrieks of laughter from the girls accompanying her.
At the sound of a carriage, a whole covey of these little scare-crows start up, rush to the gate, and all at once thrust out their hats and aprons; and for fear this, together with the noise of their clamorous begging, should not sufficiently frighten the horses, they are very apt to let the gate slap full against you, before you are half way through, in their eager scuffle to snatch from each other the halfpence which you have thrown out to them.
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