Harry Roughton: Or, Reminiscences of a Revenue Officer (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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When convenience or necessity impels, the transgressor of one law feels the less repugnance to violate another. The nightly depredator, disappointed of his coveted game, substitutes, with little hesitation, the stray poultry of the peaceful farmyard, for the unreclaimed fowls of the air; or visits, with little reluctance, the rabbit-hutch or hen roost of his neighbour. Ten hunger presses, mutton or veal, with slight regard to proprietorship, takes the place of chicken, goose, or turkey. A man may as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, argues the backslider; and, should the watchful guardians of some well-stored coppice, warren, or preserve, cross the marauder's path, or dispute his passage, no vivid perception of wrong restrains the fatal shot which may lay his adversary low, and bring himself to the gallows.

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