FORESTER
I've just taken this one from a man who was stealing wood.
OLD BAUMERT
Yes, their lordships are mighty strict with us about a few sticks for the fire.
TRAVELLER
You must allow that if every one were to help himself to what he wanted …
OLD BAUMERT
By your leave, sir, but there's a difference made here as elsewhere between the big an' the little thieves. There's some here as deals in stolen wood wholesale, and grows rich on it. But if a poor weaver …
FIRST OLD WEAVER
[Interrupts BAUMERT.] We're forbid to take a single branch; but their lordships, they take the very skin off of us—we've assurance money to pay, an' spinning-money, an' charges in kind—we must go here an' go there, an' do so an' so much field work, all willy-nilly.