1st Shep.
(Agreeing.) That’s so, that’s so!
Loveday.
How can you think that, Roto? Why, there used to be war in this very land between you and the English, and now there is none.
Roto.
That’s because the Pakeha are strong. They make laws we have to obey. If a Maori kill a Pakeha or a Maori now, the Maori is hung by the law. So Maori and Pakeha live without killing.
Loveday.
But that’s just it! If the International Parliament was strong and it made laws, the nations would have to obey and if one nation went to war and tried to kill another, that nation would suffer. So the nations would live without war.
1st Shep.
(Shaking his head.) He, he, he! That’s likely! (Whistles to the collie and goes off.)