 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Social problems - 1910 - 400 pages
...to guard. A fine old English rhyme has immortalized this easy aristocratic habit — You prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leave the larger felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. 89 But here, as in the case of the... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - Great Britain - 1912 - 388 pages
...compensation. Naturally there was much dissatisfaction. A popular piece of doggerel declared that : — " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose...greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." Again, a small holder was frequently given compensation in the form of money instead of allotting... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - Europe - 1912 - 406 pages
...was much protest. The point of view of the small holder is represented in a bit of current doggerel : "The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the...greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." Protest, however, was unavailing. With the growth of population, the increase of demand for... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - Europe - 1912 - 408 pages
...much protest. The point of view of the small holder is represented in a bit of current doggerel : " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose...greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." Protest, however, was unavailing. With the growth of population, the increase of demand for... | |
 | Sir Edward Abbott Parry - Law - 1912 - 342 pages
...is well sanctioned by precedent. Our forefathers rhymed it, in their easy-going way : You prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leave the larger felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. Hopwood was a much-abused reformer,... | |
 | Willis Mason West - Europe - 1915 - 908 pages
...the day expresses the feeling of the poor at this renewal of the ancient inclosure movement: — " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose...greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." And Goldsmith's pathetic " Deserted Village" pictures the result and gives its stern warning:... | |
 | Norman H. Chance - American wit and humor - 1915 - 168 pages
...o' socks ; Pa woke an' sez, "It's time for bed; Ma, have you wound the clocks ?" * * * You prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common — But leave the larger felon loose, SAID KATE TO SISTER ANN "If I were you I'd give to Lou The mitten sure... | |
 | Charles Zueblin, Helen Bernice Sweeny - Cities and towns - 1916 - 608 pages
...maintaining prisoners, and gives the defendant the stiffening influence of the probation officer's aid. "The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater villain loose, Who steals the common off the goose." The city court of Buffalo during... | |
 | Francis Stuart Chapin - Economic history - 1917 - 348 pages
...by these means to become gentlemen. These were they that in times past made all France afraid." 21 The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose...greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. So runs a protest in current doggerel of the time. But the decay of this sturdy class of small... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - Europe - 1917 - 684 pages
...of the small holder is represented in a bit of doggerel current in the later eighteenth century : " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose...greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." Protest, however, was unavailing. With the growth of population, the increase of demand for... | |
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The Law locks up The man or woman Who steals the goose From off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose... 
