The selectmen, on finding children ignorant, may take them away from their parents, and put them into better hands, at the expense of their parents.
A man that strikes his wife shall pay a fine of £10; a woman that strikes her husband shall be punished as the court directs.
A wife shall be deemed good evidence against her husband.
Married persons must live together, or be imprisoned.
No man shall court a maid in person, or by letter, without first obtaining consent of her parents: £5 penalty for the first offence; £10 for the second; and for the third, imprisonment during the pleasure of the court.
Every male shall have his hair cut round according to a cap.
Paronomasia.
Hard is the job to launch the desperate pun;
A pun-job dangerous as the Indian one.—Holmes.
Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide—that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life—are alike forbidden. Manslaughter, which is the meaning of the one, is the same as man’s laughter, which is the end of the other.—Ibid.