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THE BOY TRAVELLERS.
were able to live without work, and, as the right had been conceded to
tliem for generations, they naturally looked with contempt upon all kinds
of industry. Their dissipated way of living was very likely to lead them
into debt, just as it leads similar men into debt everywhere else. The
merchants and tradesmen of all kinds were their victims, as the law
allowed no redress for the -wrongs tliey committed. They would some-
times enter a shop, select what goods they wanted, hand them over to a
servant, and then leave without paying. If the mercliant intimated that
he would like to be paid for his property, they became very insolent and
threatened to report him to the police as a swindler. Tliey would enter a
TWO-SWORDED NOBLES.