"Have you any teeth left?"
"Yes, a few."
"You see, you always manage to conceal something from the authorities."
When the local authorities found that the agitation could be suppressed by knocking out the remaining teeth, they immediately resorted to that remedy. But if they saw that harmonious relations could not be established by this means they began to ask tempting questions:
"What do you want?"
"Some land."
Some of them who were so deep sunken in ignorance that they were not able to understand what was in the interest of the state, went further and kept repeating:
"We want reforms of some kind in order that our teeth and ribs and insides, at least, may be regarded as our own property, and not be touched without cause."
The authorities reasoned with them:
"Oh, friends, why should you have these idle dreams? It is said that man liveth not by bread alone, also that one person that has been beaten is worth two that have not."