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There were three things you ht bathe,
eat and sleep, only you must not sleep out loud The citizen of
Barscheit was hemmed in by a set of lahich had their birth in the
dark dungeons of the Inquisition They congealed the blood of a man
born and bred in a commercial country If you broke a law, you were
relentlessly punished; there was no mercy In A volumes which the public have neither
the time nor the inclination to read In this duchy of mine it was
different; you ran into a law on every corner, in every park, in every
public building: little oblong signs, ena or other--"Forbidden!" The beauty of Gers that you can not do, you
begin to find out that the things you can do are not worth a hang in
the doing
As soon as a person learned to read he or she began life by reading
these laws If you could not read, so ed you almost as much as the full cost of the
fine
The opposition political party in the United States is always howling
htest idea of what militarism really is
One side, please, in Barscheit, when an officer co, or take
the consequences If you carelessly bumped into him, you were knocked
down If you objected, you were arrested If you struck back, ten to
one you received a beating with the flat of a saber And never, never
mistake the soldiery for the police; that is to say, never ask an
officer to direct you to any place This is regarded in the light of